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  • From: Matthew Clark <MatthewClark AT InLesserTerms.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Results for Organization Policy vote
  • Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 07:38:58 -0500

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Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> On Friday 05 May 2006 06:06, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> One reason for not applying the themes to our versions (Sorcery's test,
>> stable, and devel branches and the devel, test, stable-rc, stable,
>> z-rejected, and games grimoires) is because non-descriptive names are
>> confusing.
>
> How about descriptive names then? They can still be fantasy related or at
> least less dull.
>
> (devel) := wild
> test := modern
> stable-rc := ancient
> stable := prehistoric
> z-rejected := necromantic
> games := bardic
>
> Just a bad example.
>
>> Take, for example, the following:
>> Grimoires:
>> terra
>> agua
>> air
>> luna
>> fuego
>> apothecary
>>
>> Now, which do you think is which? I thought of them as:
>> apothecary = devel (drugs kill people, and devel kills machines)
>> agua = test (water is fluid and often changing)
>> terra = stable (the earth is very stable)
>> luna = stable-rc (the moon is less stable than the earth, but orbits it)
>> fuego = z-rejected (fiery and unstable)
>> air = games (nothing of substance here, just fun! ;))
>>
>> Note I am not proposing these names, just trying to point out why I
>> prefer the current naming scheme for our branches to picking arbitrary
>> names.
> Your example is pretty good; I'd use fuego for devel and something bad for
> z-rejected (misery, death, plague).

I'd prefer if we left the grimoire names as they are. While the names
everyone is coming up with all seem moderately nifty, I think moving
forward with any of it is an invitation to problems.

While the theme is nice, let us not forget the KISS concept!

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