Help name the test project!

David david.jamison1 at ntlworld.com
Fri Jun 16 06:57:47 UTC 2006


Will Woods wrote:

>Hello Fedorans! I need your help.
>
>I've started putting info about the Fedora testing project on the wiki -
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraTesting - but I've got a problem.
>
>"Fedora Testing" just isn't a very inspiring project name. It's supposed
>to encompass a lot more than just testing Fedora - it wants to be a
>project (under the auspices of the Fedora community) to create and
>promote testing tools and methods for Open Source Software in general.
>We want to test everything! We want to make "Fedora" and "Open Source"
>synonymous with "rock-solid". 
>
>So "Fedora Testing" just doesn't feel like enough to me.
>
>Even more problematic is the Open Sourcing of Red Hat's automated test
>system, which they have named RHTS - Red Hat Test Suite. Surely we can
>come up with a more inspiring name for a massive automated software test
>suite/harness/system.
>
>Good names would be short, fairly unique, not trademarked, and it would
>be nice to avoid unpronounceable acronyms (like RHTS, XML-RPC, HTTP,
>USB, etc). Dogtail and Mugshot are a couple of good recent examples from
>Red Hat.
>
>Here are some possible project names:
>Proof
>Cassandra
>Witness
>FTL (Fedora Test League / Faster Than Light)
>
>And some names for an automated test suite:
>Turnstile (keeps the RHTS abbreviation for easy rebranding)
>Giant Testing Robot (GTR or testbot for short?)
>
>So - does anyone have a good name for these things? We need your help!
>We can't start mailing lists and websites without a good name!
>
>-w
>
>  
>
Fedspot??  Fed for Fedora Spot to acknowledge Dogtail and possibly spot 
the bug.

Oh whats in a name!!!!

D




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