FAQ: "Temurin" origin

[Madjosz]

Problem The FAQ section What is this "Eclipse Temurin" name? gives no information about the origin or meaning of the name "Temurin" but instead talks about the distinction of "Temurin" and "Adoptium". Actually I would have expected such information there and a little bit more than just "this is the brand name".

Suggested solution Either someone with some insights could add this information there or the section heading should be reworded to something which makes it more clear that the section not about the name itself but about the scope for which the name is used.

[sxa]

A couple of quick bits of background:

• The FAQ dates back from shortly after we branded from AdoptOpenJDK so the description of the name so that section was intended to provide an explanation of what the terms "Adoptium" and "Eclipse Temurin" were in relation to each other (something which we know end users can still find a little confusing) but perhaps the FAQ could use some updates now.
• The name is actually just an anagram of "Runtime" :-)

[smlambert]

We spent a long time deciding on the names.

The longer story:

Adoptium as the overall project name because we were often calling the AdoptOpenJDK project "Adopt" for short, and we wanted to be able to keep that short-form name. Since Adoptium sounds like it would be found on the periodic table of chemicals, we kept with that loose theme when looking for a name for the JDK binaries that are produced by the Adoptium project (among many other activities that happen at Adoptium).

Indeed, the name Temurin since it is an anagram of runtime. Interestingly Temurin is also a chemical component (also known as Theacrine) that is structurally similar to caffeine but is safer for humans to consume (non-habituating effects). So a little reference to Java as well.

Adoptium is the top-level project which produces Temurin, AQAvit, Mission Control, etc. Temurin is the name for the JDK binaries we produce (similar to Azul producing Zulu, Amazon producing Corretto, IBM producing Semeru, Alibaba Cloud producing Dragonwell, Huawei producing Bisheng...).