Re: Re: [Familiar] Renaming or forking familiar?

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 14:05, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > We (mostly Mickey and me) are getting ready to pick a name for our
> > merged distro through a voting process (more details on that will follow
> > soon), and there's a big chance the new name won't be 'Familiar'.

I'm sorry to ruin the party. But with this thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/4470
and the corresponding discussion on IRC in mind I'm not convinced that
merging is going to work out right.

And I'm not sure what you expect to gain from the merge either. There's
much to lose (a well introduced name) and AFAICT little (if anything
at all) to gain.

> I was
> > wondering how the 'oldtimers' and handhelds.org will handle that.

Personally, I'm very interested in that. Much like I'd have been
interested in the thread on OE and the unstable feed on familiar@
to be continued.

> Can we
> > promote it as a rename, of will it be considered a fork, and someone
> > (George, Jamey, Nelson, ....) will pick up Familiar?
> > Choice is good and all, but I'd like to keep 'us' all together so we can
> > all work together on a kick-ass, stable distro.

We already are via OpenEmbedded. Again, I'm not sure what the problem is
you're trying to solve.

Collaboration is already happening. What does merging buy us?

Rene
Received on Mon Jun 20 2005 - 14:33:50 EDT