project name: rvote? rv2020
dckc opened this issue · comments
it's kinda the obvious name. I find very little competition for this name; we'd come out on top of web searches right away.
I propose renaming this repo.
We could get more creative and use some name suggestive of honeybee democracy... rhive ... but that gets kinda obscure.
it's kinda the obvious name. I find very little competition for this name; we'd come out on top of web searches right away.
I propose renaming this repo.
We could get more creative and use some name suggestive of honeybee democracy... rhive ... but that gets kinda obscure.
I certainly see the appeal for using RVote. It resemble RSpace, RSong, and RCAT which were developed by RChain. RVote, however, is an RChain community effort. Perhaps there is a motivation to come up with a name that goes in a different direction. Do we see this opportunity to naming the voting dapp as, perhaps, a way to create a new community brand? There will be more dapps that follow. Perhaps we should break out of the mold.
I have no objection to the name change.
Steve's point about breaking out of the mold is a good one. I'm thinking it over.
RevElector, Rhodecide, RhoTally, Rhotocracy, R-tocracy, RhoCount, Rholection, R-Chooz, Suff-rho-gatio, DemocRHOcy, EnumeRho, Waggle, RhoWaggle, waggleRho, RhoVoto, Rhoferee, Rhoricle, just brainstorming. My muse must be taking the day off.
I like DemocRHOcy, though it's weak on the telephone test (does the name get spelled the same way by B after A reads it and speaks it to B who writes it down?). For example, google spell-checks it to democracy.
rhoferee has some appeal. Google isn't so convinced it's just a typo for referee.
A big problem picking a name at this point is that we don't really know what we're making. In this case, my favorite technique is to pick a short name that's only vaguely mnemonic. For example, sm19a. I chose those characters based on "special meeting 2019 april" but I still use that repository long after the relevance of the meeting fades, so I can give the name a post-hoc gloss such as "spring melody 19 alpha". Picking a couple digits that happen to be on my screen now, combined with "rchain voting", I get rv11.
A colleague of mine just runs uuidgen a few times and picks 4 or 5 characters from the results; I get e929a using this technique, for example.
Let's use a code name such as rv11 for now. I agree, we need to figure out what we are building.
done: https://github.com/rchain-community/rv11
with a redirect from https://github.com/rchain-community/voting
reconsidered... https://github.com/rchain-community/rv2020