On Wednesday 02 February 2011 21:21:59 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 14:46 +1100, Helen wrote:
On a related note, I was under the impression that Bretzn was being renamed to 'AppInstaller' though perhaps I've got the "wrong end of the stick" as the saying goes.
Maybe we should come up with something that conforms with our "open" identity? Something like openApp or openInstaller or something? I dunno, "installer" sounds a bit intimidating to some people, but open-something might be the way to go.
Well, the name of the application for installation is "openSUSE Application Installer", see: http://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/appstore_details.png The product you might call 'bretzn' is the plugin for IDE's which ties the Build Service(s) to application store(s), websites and repositories. And the name of the whole project developing it is Bretzn. But it's still vague because - is Bretzn a KDE project? or is it an openSUSE project? The ppl who started it are KDE and openSUSE people. But they want it to be cross- desktop and cross-distribution as well as based on open standards (eg libattica, OCS). So the bretzn branding is surely unclear in general. I've copied in Karlitschek who started this whole thing, and vuntz who's been busy on the cross-distro side (and might get involved with the GNOME application installer on openSUSE). I've recently asked Frank to move the Bretzn mailinglist to freedesktop.org - a cross-desktop, cross-distro project with a mailinglist named "kde- bretzn@kde.org" doesn't make much sense. Still, unless people from other distros and desktops actually get involved, it's not much of a cross-project. I think we should get the people who are working on this stuff for KDE, GNOME and all distro's together on that one new mailinglist... Meanwhile, we do indeed need to think about the name. How big is the scope of Bretzn, and IF we decide it's fully cross desktop/distro, is Bretzn the right name? It has indeed disadvantages, being hard to spell and pronounce for non- Germans...
Just thinking out loud here.
Bryen