[Debtorrent-devel] Fwd: BitTorrent Protocol Expansion (Google SoC)

[Cameron Dale]

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From: Anthony Towns <aj at azure.humbug.org.au>
Date: Apr 12, 2007 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: BitTorrent Protocol Expansion (Google SoC)
To: Cameron Dale <camrdale at gmail.com>


On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:25:58PM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote:
> >How about "apt-tornado" given we're presumably going with the bittornado
> >codebase, and trying to make it usable by apt?
> I thought about that, but since many aren't aware of BitTornado we
> wouldn't be able to play off the popularity of BitTorrent, which we
> might want to do, or might not want to. There are some (dis)advantages
> to name recognition, after all.

I don't think name recognition matters at all; if the software's any good,
people'll recognise it whatever it's called, and if the software's no
good, well, that's not an issue anyway because it'll be created by us :)

Pick a name that you're comfortable saying or typing -- apt-tornado,
apt-bittorrent, debtorrent, or something else -- and go with it.

> I just thought of a new one too: apt-share. That kind of simply
> describes the program's intentions, i.e. sharing bandwidth with
> others.

It strikes me as a bit too general and, well, bland, personally. But
you'll be doing most of the work (hopefully! :) so choose whatever you're
most comfortable with yourself.

After all, take "apt", "bittorrent", "gnome", "kde", "linux" etc -- none
of those have any real meaning without a description unless you know what
they are already. But they've all earnt name recognition on their merits.
I'd expect this to do the same.

Cheers,
aj


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