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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-pms] Rename?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:28:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21053.44313.172395.464187@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (raw)

Hi all,

I've repeatedly been contacted by devs who are unhappy with the
abbreviation "PMS" because of the results that show up in search
engines [1]. I've also seen that it was ridiculed.

So, what would you think about renaming to "Gentoo EAPI
Specification"? Project, repository, mailing list etc. could be
renamed to "eapi" (lower case or all caps, as appropriate).

The new name would also match the first paragraph of the introduction
(quoted below) and it would clarify that certain aspects of the
package manager, like the VDB format that came up recently, do not
necessarily fall within the scope of the document.

| This document aims to fully describe the format of an ebuild
| repository and the ebuilds therein, as well as certain aspects of 
| package manager behaviour required to support such a repository.

Ulrich

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMS


             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-21 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-21 14:28 Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2013-09-21 16:02 ` [gentoo-pms] Rename? Anthony G. Basile
2013-09-21 16:09   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-09-24  7:55 ` Michał Górny

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