[Kamailio-Users] [Kamailio-Devel] poll: project name

[Klaus Darilion]

Is it really that difficult? It german its easy - just pronounce it as 
it is written.

klaus

Norman Brandinger schrieb:
> 5 - I would prefer a name that is more or less easy to pronounce in English.
> 
> Norm
> 
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> some people expressed inconveniences regarding the new name, so we would 
>> like to get your opinion about, therefore this is a poll that will get 
>> us to a decision. Here is the question:
>>
>> Do you like the name "Kamailio"?
>> 1) Yes, I love it. Please keep it.
>> 2) It is OK.
>> 3) I do not mind the name at all
>> 4) I do not like it
>> 5) I hate the name and we should change it
>>
>> There is no need of explanations, as it is up to personal taste and 
>> decision. Just vote by option.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>> PS. for those interested...
>>
>> As short history about renaming story. On the 28th of March the board 
>> was informed about issues with SER part of project name. You can easily 
>> find who has the trademarks. On the 7th of April the board was informed 
>> about an agreement for the deadline as of September 30, 2008 to use old 
>> name. From there on, all old releases, documents, etc. can be referred 
>> by the old name, but nothing new. Other few discussions about what 
>> should/could be kept/changed followed and on 12th of May started the 
>> discussion about the new name with two main direction, something 
>> similar, to remind about old project or just something completely new, 
>> to be used as brand name. Couple of proposals and discussions regarding 
>> possible names followed up to 16th of July when was the deadline and the 
>> start of vote. Majority was reached on 17th but it was required to have 
>> opinions from all members of the board, last came from Bogdan, on the 
>> 28th of July.
>>
>> All discussions about migration were on the board mailing list. No 
>> change were done to openser.org configuration, just the new domain with 
>> kamailio in it was pointed to same server. Every step done was reported 
>> to board, following a schedule discussed there. Another discussion was 
>> about making the renaming and 1.4.0 release in same day. Being 
>> practically impossible to do all the work in one day, it was decided to 
>> do first the announcement about renaming. That happened on 28th when all 
>> agreed with the new name.
>>
>> As you can see, there was no 5 months of renaming duration. There was no 
>> change in openser.org DNS configuration undertaken with/without the 
>> knowledge of all board members. The new name domains were reserved when 
>> majority was achieved, in any case; dns entries for new name were 
>> pointed to old server shortly after booking the domains.
>>
>>   
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