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Pick an unique name #16

Closed ghost closed 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

The name "borg" is already used by a more significant free software project.1

Is it really that hard to type your name idea to a search engine to see if it has already been used by someone else?

jeremyletang commented 8 years ago

Is it really that hard to be polite when you speak with people ?

J00MZ commented 8 years ago

The above attitude aside, I actually was wondering about the name too - Google's Kubernetes predecessor was (and still is) named Borg, see this question.

crufter commented 8 years ago

@Tsutsukakushi It is not that hard. I am truly sorry that this name collision disturbed you, however same names are being used for a lot of projects, there is Google's Borg as well.

crufter commented 8 years ago

@J00MZ The reason it collides because I have not expected people to pick this up at all - I hacked it together in a day or so and didn't think much about the name - I knew about the other borgs, but I liked the name for a search engine like thingy - it just seems fitting, putting knowledge in a "collective mind" and then querying it.

I pretty much expected this project project to sit amongst my other unknown github repos - and people don't complain about name collisions if they don't know about your project.

ghost commented 8 years ago

however same names are being used for a lot of projects

Yes and this is very annoying.

crufter commented 8 years ago

@Tsutsukakushi I understand your frustration but it's really easy to get around, it's a single binary, it's not like installation requires you to create 10k subfolders all over your system.

Once I find a name I like more I might change it.

ghost commented 8 years ago

The major part of the problem is with discoverabilitity through search engines and package managers.