Jos, On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 12:02:04PM +0100, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2011 10:55:01 Adrian Schröter wrote:
One of them (Kurt Garloff) made actually a suggestion some month ago to rename it to "OBS Build Service". This is in the tradition of the Gnu tools and also rpm (RedHat Package Manager -> rpm package manager) is a good example. It also strength the "OBS" term itself IMHO.
I personally like this suggestion and would slightly prefer it to open-build- service (but I have no strong opinion here). But you may want to discuss it on FOSDEM.
Hmmm, it does indeed fit in the Unux tradition. Then again, that tradition is a bit outdated these days - pretty much nobody does use recursive acronyms anymore. But you're right, it's an option.
Well, openSUSE Build Service is currently several things:
1. The software that does the builds
2. The service that we host
My proposal was to name #1 OBS = OBS Build Server (with people
associating the O with openSUSE or just open being intended).
#2 would continue to have the name openSUSE Build Service until
the openSUSE project decides otherwise ...
Having two distinct names will help to avoid confusion. Having
them still similar is good IMVHO.
Cheers,
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Kurt Garloff