Re: A new name for kvm-unit-tests ?

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On 30.07.20 07:41, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 
>  Hi all,
> 
> since Paolo recently suggested to decrease the bus factor for
> kvm-unit-tests [1], I suggested (in a private mail) to maybe also move
> the repo to one of the git forges where we could benefit from a CI

ack.

> system (so that we do not merge bugs so often anymore as it happened in
> the previous months). If we do that step, that might be a good point in
> time to rename the kvm-unit-tests to something more adequate. "Why?" you
> might ask ... well, the unit tests are not only useful for kvm anymore:

I personally dislike renames as you will have old references lurking in
the internet for decades. A rename will result in people continue to using
the old code because the old name is the only thing that they know.

[...] 
> Maybe we should come up with a more fancy name for the test suite? For
> example something like "HECATE" - "*H*ypervisor *E*xecution and *C*pu
> instruction *A*dvanced *T*est *E*nvironment" (and Hecate is also the
> goddess of boundaries - which you could translate to the hypervisor
> being the boundary between the virtual and real machine ... with a
> little bit of imagination, of course) ... well, yeah, that's just what
> came to my mind so far, of course. Let's brainstorm ... do you have any
> good ideas for a new name of the kvm-unit-tests? Or do you love the old
> name and think it should stay? Or do you think cpu-unit-tests would be
> the best fit? Please let us know!

If we rename than hecate or cpu-unit-tests is fine for me, but I prefer
to keep the old name.




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