Re: Change the name
От | Ron Mayer |
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Тема | Re: Change the name |
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Msg-id | 46DEA8E4.4050409@cheapcomplexdevices.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Change the name ("Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg@turnstep.com>) |
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Re: Change the name
(Christian Voelker <C.Voelker@gmx.net>)
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Список | pgsql-advocacy |
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > I made a > quick wiki page. Pleae let Neil or myself know if anyone needs editing privs: > > http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/Postgres I'm happy to add them myself if you wanted to add naming privs; or I can just email them here if you guys want to choose which ones to add. Some more pros and cons for that page .. mostly from earlier in the thread. [More] Pros for changing the name to "Postgres" * Some friendly companies already using this term would benefit. [More] Cons for changing the name to "Postgres" * Some friendly companies using PostgreSQL term would lose benefits orhave to rephrase their taglines or other references to PostgreSQL. Perhaps also add a section "Things that may need to be changed if the name is not changed"* Make "Postgre" an officially acceptable short form becauseit's the obvious short form of PostgreSQL; which will prevent some of the abuse of new members, users, and customersof the product.* or, Fund a marketing campaign to educate the world that we're not Postgre.* Rename paths and filenamesand processes from postgres to postgresql.* Update paths on website that use "pgsql" instead of "PostgreSQL".* Producenew swag as the old inventory is used up.* Make links use PostgreSQL.org instead of postgresql.org to re-enforcethe brand.* Update the mailing list names from "pgsql-advocacy" to "postgresql-advocacy" Obviously some of these don't have to change here any more than they would have to with the name Postgres; but if people add them to the list of work for the new name, seems they should be there for the old name too. Perhaps also add a section "Alternatives to changing to Postgres" * Moving to PostgresQL - which keeps domain names, etc but encourages the preferred short form.* Approving of "Postgre".*A marketing campaign to educate the world against "Postgre" Add to external links: * http://svr5.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2006-07/msg00063.php Which has the interesting quote: "Arguably, the 1996 decisionto call it PostgreSQL instead of reverting to plain Postgres was the single worst mistake this project ever made." I also think it'd be worth adding an example that illustrates why PostgreSQL is so awkward to people who haven't gotten years getting numb to the term. Perhaps comparing to EnterpriSQL would help illustrate this; or perhaps a sentence like"PerhapSQL Josh BerkuSQL iSQL going to say yeSQL and blesSQL this projectif he seeSQL how new userSQL parse wordSQL with mixed case." would server better.
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