[dcontrol] Names, code, work (Suggestion for name)

Fabricio Cannini segfaulter@yahoo.com.br
Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:13:48 -0300 (ART)


Suggestion for name:

D3C (Debian's Control && Configuration Center)

(Yes, i know it should be DC3, 
but to avoid trouble with Mc-Donnell-Douglas,
who is the mftr. of the DC-3 airplane, 
this is my sugestion) 

Best to you,

 --- David Moreno Garza <damog@damog.net> escreveu: 
> Well, apparently everyone on the dcontrol project is
> now suscribed to
> this mailing list. Blame on me if something went
> wrong :)
> 
> Some summary:
> 
> Well, I received a request from Martin Zobel-Helas
> about 15 days ago
> telling me to change our last Alioth project's name.
> As you all should
> know, it was called 'dcc', and they have 'pkg-dcc'
> for something they
> are working on, so he asked me for the change of the
> project's name.
> Now, since 'dcontrol' was already taken, I had to
> take 'debcontrol', but
> please, just to let you know, Debian Control Center
> project will be
> named 'dcontrol', because it sounds cool :) The only
> place where it will
> be called 'debcontrol' is on Alioth stuff.
> 
> Now, Jens Hermans made a very special and cute
> summary of dcontrol
> plans/brainstorm, but since I'm widely disorganized,
> I lost the URL, and
> I couldn't fetch it from Google. Jens, could you
> show up that paper?
> Could you add it to the wiki?
> 
> I have started to check gkdebconf as a starting
> point for API
> implementation on any programming framework, in
> order to _possibly_ use
> it on dcontrol. If I make anything useful, I'll
> upload it to the CVS.
> 
> But before anything, I think Agney, who was talking
> to me on IRC a few
> hours ago, is right: We'll have to start by working
> a little bit on
> basis of engineering software for dcontrol,
> planning, etc.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
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