Re: [Tracker] Reviving the project, a first attempt

[Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be>]

On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 06:05 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

> > Yes. Back then my opinion was that a rename was not needed and would at
> > that point in time hurt the project's team adhesion.
>
> I never quite understood this part. I was never a fan of the name, or
> generic names for projects, partly due to searchability (e.g. names
> like 'python' 'gnome').
>
> Anyways, is it not easier/better to do a rename when a project is
> younger... as in now?

In open source any project is as young as it has contributors, releases
and testers.

There are open source projects that are 20 years old, and are still
'young', and there are open source projects that are 2 weeks old and
that are already old and forgotten.

Kind regards,

Philip


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