Thanks for your responses to the poll! I have posted on the sge-discuss list at Liverpool to inform them of this http://arc.liv.ac.uk/pipermail/sge-discuss/2018-May/thread.html .. partly since the name "Son of GridEngine" seems to be leading in the poll, and I want to find out if there is anyone in that old team that would be upset if the name is re-used. Dan
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Povey <dpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've created a Doodle poll with the options named so far. > > https://doodle.com/poll/vcr2nasruzkg4r4g > > This is just so we can get a sense of peoples' opinions, it won't be binding! > Also maybe some people will respond that wouldn't want to reply to the > whole list. > > > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Povey <dpo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks for the naming ideas! >> >> Since many of these ideas are family-related I had a look for synonyms >> for 'offspring' that begin with s (so that we have no difficulty >> explaining why the binaries still have 'sge' in the name). >> >> https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/offspring >> >> There is 'spawn of GridEngine'. (Also 'seed of GridEngine' but it >> seems a bit too sexual to me.. . maybe spawn would be better). I feel >> like 'sister of GridEngine' maybe doesn't sit well with the fact that >> the project is a derivation of Son of GridEngine, not a parallel >> project. 'spawn' still sounds like it could be in a horror movie, but >> I'm OK with that. >> >> Dan >> >> >> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Afif Elghraoui <a...@debian.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On May 11, 2018 7:46:39 PM EDT, Daniel Povey <dpo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>RE the name-- if we used the same name and the U. of Liverpool people >>>>were to become active again, or notice the duplication, I'm concerned >>>>that there might be confusion. (Plus, a unique name is easier for >>>>google-search purposes, so there is no confusion about the location of >>>>the project). I'd rather only use the same name with Dave Love's >>>>blessing, but that is depenent on being able to contact him. However, >>>>if most others want to to keep the same name, I'd be OK with it. >>>> >>> >>> I tried to keep myself out of proposing a name, but...if you wanted to keep >>> the SGE abbreviation again like Dave tried to do, another name is "sister >>> of grid engine" >>> >>> Afif _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
