Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2011, 10:18:32 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
> On 2011-02-04 Bryen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 13:31 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> > > Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
> > > > A. We recommend formally changing the name to ""Open Build
> > > > Service"
> > > >
> > > > B. We recommend formally changing the name to OBS and allowing
> > > > people to use "openSUSE Build Service" or "open Build Service"
> > > > as they see fit.
> > > >
> > > > C. Leave it as is - openSUSE Build Service
> > >
> > > I vote for B.
> > >
> > > Since the words 'openSUSE Build Service' are already all over the
> > > *.opensuse.org sites, we have to replace *ALL* of them with 'Open
> > > Build
> > > Service' if we change the name.
> > >
> > > So, I'd like to ask you, who will vote for A: Are you willing to
> > > replace the words 'openSUSE Build Service' which are already on
> > > whole
> > > *.opensuse.org sites with 'Open Build Service' responsibly?
> > >
> > > If the answer is 'No, someone except me should do.', I'm sorry to
> > > say
> > > you are an irresponsible person. Only if the answer is 'Yes, I'll
> > > volunteer to do so.', the option A would be a compelling opinion.
> > >
> > > Best,
> >
> > That's a valid concern. And I just poked someone in the wiki team to
> > ask how difficult this challenge would be. From a technical standpoint,
> > it's not that difficult to install an extension from mediawiki to do
> > mass edits. At the very least, we could produce a list of all pages
> > that have that string and a group of us volunteer to go through pages
> > one-by-one to clean it up. Obviously this only applies to pages where
> > the full "openSUSE Build Service" string exists. Those where OBS is
> > only used, no need to worry.
> >
> > So... I'm volunteering to jump on on the cleanup effort if that's what
> > is eventually decided upon.
> >
> > I remind you all that again, we are only voting on a recommendation to
> > give to the OBS team. We're not actually making a decision here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryen
>
> Assuming everyone who didn't reply doesn't have a strong opinion or isn't
> that interested, the conclusion is that we go for option A: Open Build
> Service. Bryen has offered to make sure it all looks good in the wiki and
> other pages.
>
> So, Bryen or Helen - which one of you communicates this to the OBS people,
> tell them the marketing team recommends a name change to Open Build Service
> and will take care of the renaming work on the websites?
Hello ?
OBS is not owned by you people.
You can of course also decide to rename the Linux Kernel, but this is not the way to make this happen.
--
Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@suse.de