[wsf-dev] [Igf-dev] Fwd: Naming of WSF and IGF

[Phil Hunt]

I think we should call a conference call on this.  This is starting to  
go in circles. :-)

Phil Hunt
Oracle


On 24-Mar-08, at 2:15 PM, Asa Hardcastle wrote:

> I agree with Scott on this point.  We are stronger if there is a  
> perception of a whole.  Personally I like Open, but I am completely  
> _open_ to a better idea if there is one out there.
>
> OpenSAML (obviously not an OpenLiberty project, but all of the  
> clientlib tooling is based on it)
> OpenWSF
> OpenIGF
> OpenECP Plugin
>
> My preference is to keep the names short, easy to say, recognizable,  
> and as meaningful as possible.
>
> later,
>
> asa
>
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> Asa Hardcastle, Technical Lead, openLiberty ID-WSF ClientLib
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>
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Scott Cantor wrote:
>
>>> I'm confused. You seemed to want to call the WSF project the
>>> OpenLiberty/J project.  My objection was that one project should not
>>> have the same name as the organization name.
>>
>> No, I wanted to use a single "umbrella" name derived from the  
>> organization
>> and just deliver the subsets of function with more specific  
>> technical names
>> or provide the option to download specific pieces, whatever makes  
>> sense.
>>
>> What I was suggesting was that people looking for code are going to
>> recognize the name Liberty but will not in general recognize WSF or  
>> IGF. And
>> I'm suggesting that every project will now have to repeat the same  
>> difficult
>> argument, and I was just trying to avoid that.
>>
>> Otherwise, I would argue that it's better to just pick a consistent
>> convention and use OpenWSF, OpenIGF, etc. As I said earlier, I  
>> strongly
>> disagree with you about the word Open.
>>
>> But since I guess people want to leave it to each project, all I  
>> can say is
>> have fun. At least Sampo's code has a name already. ;-)
>>
>> -- Scott
>>
>>
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