Re: MOGGIES Proposed Charter<

Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> Fri, 21 May 2010 21:54 UTC

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From: Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com>
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Subject: Re: MOGGIES Proposed Charter<
To: simon@josefsson.org
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 22:11:11 +0200
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> writes:
> >
> > <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > >   [..."MOGGIES"...]
> > >
> > > I don't love the name (I keep thinking "MOOGIES", which sounds like
> > > something gross :), but I'll live; I have no better suggestions.
> >
> > I don't even _understand_ the name.  Or the expansion.
> > Can't we have something that doesn't make me (and anyone not already
> > familiar with what we're working on) go "Huh?" ?

I had to look up the term MOGGIES in a dictionary.

The meaning of the expansion appears a little weird/non-intuitive to me.

> 
> I would prefer something self-explanatory, like SASLGSS.

Do we need to rename Kitten at all?

How about "KittenS" ?

-Martin