2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 2007/3/16, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Also I don't even know what
> > > Xdg stands for :-)
> >
> > I found this:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg
> >
> > I am for the politically correct XdgSomething
>
>
> Ah, thanks, now I know that :-)
>
> I'm not sure if we need some kind of blessing to brand it as Xdg
> though... Is there are formal *group* behind the "g", or is it just a loose
> group of people with similar interests?
>


Ok,  here's a  round up:

 - Brassica : Already taken.
 - Sinapis : Appears to be clean. Good because it is close to synapse
which is a connection, and bad because it is close to synaptic (the package
manager)
 - Galanga : Appears clean. G could insinuate Gnome connection. Close to
Galago and Galaga which are both interely different software projects
 - Karashi : Appears clean. Could indicate KDE relation.
 - Pequin : Appears clean. Looks and sounds a bit odd.
 - Aji : Appears clean. There's something about it I dislike
 - XdgSearch: Totally clean (zero google hits). The "boring" but serious
name. We do more than searching in the strict sense though
 - {Meta,Data}Sauce : Unlikely :-)

And now my brand new suggestion: "ximas" - eXtensible Interface for
Metadata and Search services. Appears to be clean. It actually means
something and sounds more techy than spice-inspired names. I hope this is a
compromise of the suggestions so far. What do you think?

Unless I get better proposals or good reasons not to use ximas I will
dictate this as the new name so that we can on with the show :-)



Ok, I really want to get past this asap. Having some quick conversations on
IRC I've decided that we will use yet another name:

"xesam" -  eXtEnsible Search And Metadata specification

Why? xesam has the dual meaning of "open sesame" too and there is only 452
google hits on that word (ximas has ~119.000). I know there is an rdf store
called "sesame" but I think the danger for confusion is quite low.

Wasabi is dead. Long live xesam.

Cheers,
Mikkel
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