New name for new "KernelCI"
Nikolai Kondrashov <[email protected]>
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Hi everyone, As you know, we've been developing the new KernelCI API [1], and the kernelci-pipeline [2] based on it, for quite a while. However, by now it seems that too many things are being called "KernelCI": the project, pieces of the old system, pieces of the new system. We would also like to give the name of KernelCI the project a wider scope than just a particular CI system, and accommodate more packages/projects under its name. So we would like to propose to call the new system "KernelCI <Something>". And this message is about that "<Something>". I think it would be good to have the new name associate with one or more of the below qualities/functions (but feel free to dispute and extend this): * focused * simple * powerful * experienced (as in arising from experience) * open * distributed * commanding (a fleet) * kernel-related * bug-related One of the current working names, that Gustavo Padovan has proposed, is "Maestro". As in "KernelCI Maestro". It hits the following associations: focused, powerful, experienced, commanding. As a joke and to come up with an example, I suggested "Kraken", that is "KernelCI Kraken", which hits these: powerful, experienced (it's old), simple (minded), focused (on sinking ships), distributed (it has tentacles), Keeping things short, here are all the ideas so far, in alphabetic order: * KernelCI Anthill - bug-related, distributed, commanding, focused * KernelCI Arrow - focused, simple, powerful * KernelCI Kraken - powerful, experienced, simple, focused, distributed * KernelCI Lens - focused, powerful, simple * KernelCI Lighthouse - focused, simple, powerful, commanding, experienced * KernelCI Maestro - focused, powerful, experienced, commanding * KernelCI Needle (in a haystack) - focused, simple, powerful, experienced * KernelCI Nucleus - kernel-related, simple, powerful (when split) * KernelCI PristineCI - simple, open * KernelCI Pulse - focused, simple, powerful, experienced * KernelCI Tamanduá (anteater in Spanish) - bug-related, simple, focused * KernelCI Trails - focused, experienced, distributed * KernelCI Warden - focused, powerful, experienced, commanding I would appreciate any arguments and ideas about this. Once we have all the names we can think of, and strike out ones we definitely don't like, I'll create and post a poll here to pick one. Thank you! Nick TSC Chair [1] https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-api [2] https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-pipeline