On Sat, Aug 17, 2024 at 9:12 AM Anthony D'Atri <aad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It's going to wreak havoc on search engines that can't tell when > > someone's looking up Ceph versus the long-establish Squid Proxy. > > Search engines are way smarter than that, and I daresay that people are far more likely to search for “Ceph” or “Ceph squid" than for “squid” alone looking for Ceph. > > > > I don’t know how many more (sub)species there are to start over from A (the first release was Argonaut) > > Ammonite is a natural, and two years later we *must* release Cthulhu. > > Cartoon names run some risk of trademark issues. > > > ... that said, naming a *release* of a software with the name of > > well known other open source software is pure crazyness. > > I haven’t seen the web cache used in years — maybe still in Antarctica? These are vanity names for fun. I’ve found that more people know the numeric release they run than the codename anyway. > > > What's coming next? Ceph Redis? Ceph Apache? Or Apache Ceph? > > Since you mention Apache, their “Spark” is an overload. And Apache itself is cultural appropriation but that’s a tangent. > > When I worked for Advanced Micro Devices we used the Auto Mounter Daemon > > I’ve also used AMANDA for backups, which was not a Boston song. > > Let’s not forget Apple’s iOS and Cisco’s IOS. > > Ceph Octopus, and this cable https://usb.brando.com/usb-octopus-4-port-hub-cable_p999c39d15.html and of course this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/110473961774 > > The first Ceph release named after Jason’s posse. > Bobcat colliding with skid-loaders and Goldthwaite Originally I remember also suggesting "banana" (after bananaslug) [1] , imagine how much worse it could have been. [1] https://marc.info/?l=ceph-devel&m=133954522619841&w=2 > Dumpling and gyoza > Firefly and the Uriah Heep album (though Demons & Wizards was better) > Giant and the Liz Taylor movie (and grocery store) > Hammer and Jan > Jewel and the singer > Moreover, Ceph Nautilus: > Korg software > Process engineering software > CMS > GNOME file manager > Firefox and the Clint Eastwood movie > Chrome and the bumper on a 1962 Karmann Ghia > Slack and the Linux distribution > > When I worked for Cisco, people thought I was in food service. Namespaces are crowded. Overlap happens. Context resolves readily. > > Within the Cephapod scheme we’ve used Octopus and Nautilus, to not use Squid would be odd. And Shantungendoceras doesn’t roll off the tongue. > > > > “What’s in a name?” - Shakespeare > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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