change project name

[ehartford]

Unless the author of date.js will hand over the reins, I would suggest rebranding this effort for many reasons.

1) SEO 2) People know it's fresh 3) relaxed expectations for backwards compatibility 4) less confusion, people filing bugs in both places 5) buzz, name recognition, identification

[abritinthebay]

I've thought about it. I'd want to keep DateJS somewhere in there as it's a) recognition and b) a fork not a totally different project.

Currently learning towards DateJS Evolved, though suggestions welcome and appreciated!

[ehartford]

He might just hand it over if you ask nicely. http://www.ext.net/author/geoffrey-mcgill/

[abritinthebay]

I've tried messaging him repeatedly - either he doesn't check his inbox (email OR forums) or he just isn't interested.

:(

[RupertAvery]

I know this is a bit off topic, but on the topic of contacting the original author, I wanted to get some feedback on a set of typescript definitions I started on my fork. I was hoping you could take a look.

[abritinthebay]

Will take a look :)

[Holzberg]

How about DateJS++

[armordog]

For what it's worth, I like DateJS++. Although any JS-based instances of the name are going to require some clever renaming. (DateJSxx, DateJSpp, etc)

[abritinthebay]

I like the ++ from a technical point of view however... here are my problems with it. Solutions welcome:

• URL's are impractical for a site (datejsplusplus.com? Not good. datejspp.com? urggh)
• The above issue with how the hell you represent the ++ characters without using them.

[javasdivren]

We would love to hear that you change the name. Even this is not a "totally" different from dateJs, we can take a look at lodash & underscore

[abritinthebay]

Yeah, I'm open to suggestions. Right now it's "DateJS Evolved" which is fine but maybe not ideal.

As it's in NPM as "datejs" and it's basically a continuation of it... would be good to keep that in there somehow.

[atus]

What about datejs2?

[RupertAvery]

palmjs? Because dates are palms?

[nsisodiya]

I vote for date.js other options are datejs2, datejs++ dater.js

[ehartford]

My favorite is datejs2

[startswithaj]

http://datejsevolved.com/ is this related? The links to npm and github dont work.

Is there a demo or a feature page somewhere?

[abritinthebay]

Oooo you found that! Damn you're good. I've not finished setting up that site yet! It's barely started.

But yes, that's real. There will indeed be a demo page on that site - it's just not there yet :)

[abritinthebay]

The NPM, Bower, and Github links are all updated there now btw - but it's no where near ready for general consumption.

[StephenWTurner]

Another issue with the old name is that it may lead users (it led me) to incorrectly install the @types/datejs package,

[daviscabral]

datejs_with_steroids 😆