Help name the test project!

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Jun 16 14:51:09 UTC 2006


On 6/15/06, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> 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.
>

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