On Monday 2019-04-01 02:33, Simon Lees wrote:
Some time long ago back in the dark ages we allowed one of the greatest travesties of all time take place where buy the chromium name was stolen away from a humble arcade shooter with space ships and lasers then given to a big ugly memory sucking corporate browser. https://sourceforge.net/projects/chromium-bsu/
As much as I am with you on the corporate travesty part, I find it hard to support agreement for the CBSU move. * It is the year 2000. Internet was still on the rise. Funpics still outweighed memes. Sourceforge still had a mandatory project review. Someone registers "Chromium", http://sf.net/projects/chromium/ , in December 2000 as: """Chromium is a flexible framework for scalable real-time rendering on clusters of workstations, derived from the Stanford WireGL project code base.""" * chromium-bsu only made it onto Sourceforge on 21 January 2001, at which point the "UNIX project name" debate was practically over, even if CBSU existed before 2000. * The web.archive.org search engine crawled the then-homepage of Chromium BSU on January 24 2001, and the page presents the project as "Chromium B.S.U.". This indicates to me that the project had, rather quickly (within a month), accepted its name collision fate. Related anecdote: """The name [FUSE] wanted to be a clever acronym for "Filesystem in USErspace", but it turned out to be an unfortunate choice. The author has since vowed never to name a project after a common term, not even anything found more than a handful of times on Google.""" (FUSE FAQ) * So the homepage says the title is "Chromium B.S.U.". Titles are not always directly usable as a Sourceforge UNIX project name/openSUSE package name because of spaces and dots, but they give an indication what it should be like. "chromium-bsu" and "chromium_bsu" are the closest. * The Sourceforge/Github/Gitlab/Savannah/etc./etc. project name is a generally strong indicator for what the openSUSE package name should be like. (Sourceforge/Savannah did not allow for underscores, so people used dashes instead.) * The source code tarballs' filenames also give the/an indication. Who would have thought, it is "chromium-bsu" too. Three unison voices for "chromium-bsu". That has got to be the openSUSE package name, as per our package naming policies. Irrespective of whether you love or loathe chromium-the-browser. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org