[IAEP] Nick name for Sugar 0.84: van Houten

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:54:57PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>On 06.03.2009, at 13:49, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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>> Proposal: Sugar 0.82 "Chocolate"
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>Nice idea, but it's not google-compatible. Rather unlikely that "sugar 
>chocolate" will lead one to discover 0.82 ... It's too bad "Sugar" is 
>such a generic word :(

I don't understand what you dislike about it.

I do not expect the nickname to promote Sugar, just as "Lenny" does not 
itself promote Debian, or "Hoary promote Ubuntu.


Actually, after I send the proposal I realized that in my opinion 
nicknames directly tied to Sugar is a bad idea, as it might dry out the 
namespace too quickly, and also confuse as the actual name does not 
(like e.g. Sucrose) hint about the the kind of relation.


So I now propose instead to name Sugar releases _indirectly_ after great 
sugar-related personalities, and specifically propose to name next 
release: Van Houten

Background material for my choice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenraad_Johannes_van_Houten


Further ideas: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/food.shtml



   - Jonas


P.S.

This first nickname also serves as an excercise in avoiding CamelCasing 
everything: "van" is lowercase". ;-)

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