Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Renaming PyBOMBS

[Tim O'Shea]

IMO it is generally nice to have a unique googleable name for an application which doesn't result in five trillion unrelated Google results.  While short acronyms will have false positives, names like "grab" or any standard English words are generally bad choices from this point of view

Grpm and the like seem fairly unique - pybombs was a win by this measure

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015, 1:02 PM Martin Braun <address@hidden> wrote:

On 23.12.2015 09:28, Stefan Wunsch wrote:
> I don't want to destroy your idea, but GRAB sounds like CRAP as well and
> you can think of the associated sentences ;)

'grab' is also a very common english verb, so I think people would be
able to distinguish. It also sounds like 'crab' if you like :)

M

>
> On 12/22/2015 09:31 PM, Richard Bell wrote:
>> GRAB = Gnu RAdio Basic installer
>>
>> Then we can say things like "Go GRAB it" when referring to a needed module
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Martin Braun <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There's been some demand to rename PyBOMBS, and now that we're
>>> re-releasing it, this is a good time to think about it. Complaints about
>>> the name include:
>>>
>>> - It may or may not be true that people have been detained by TSA for
>>> working on PyBOMBS at the airport[1]
>>> - The name suggests a Python-related packages (like Pylint, PyPI...)
>>> rather than a GNU Radio-related tool
>>> - People can't agree on a capitalization
>>> - No one can remember what the acronym stands for
>>>
>>> Sure, this is not a critical thing, but now's a good chance to bring it
>>> up and also, this is not a joke :)
>>>
>>> Here's how we're going to do this:
>>>
>>> - Please suggest new names in this thread.
>>> - I will choose from those names based on 'can I live with this name',
>>> 100% subjectively.
>>> - New names will be put up for a vote. This will include an option to
>>> keep the old name.
>>> - Finally, the result of the vote will be used as a strong suggestion on
>>> what the new name will be.
>>>
>>> There already have been some suggestions:
>>>
>>> - gromit -- the GNU Radio out-of-tree module installation tool
>>> - the groot
>>> - grpm -- the GNU Radio package manager
>>>
>>>
>>> OK guys, bring up the ideas!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> [1] It's not.
>>>
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