From general-return-15976-apmail-incubator-general-archive=incubator.apache.org@incubator.apache.org Thu Oct 04 10:00:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 88026 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2007 10:00:05 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 4 Oct 2007 10:00:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 73234 invoked by uid 500); 4 Oct 2007 09:59:53 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-general-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 72720 invoked by uid 500); 4 Oct 2007 09:59:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact general-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: general@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list general@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 72709 invoked by uid 99); 4 Oct 2007 09:59:52 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:59:52 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of martijn.dashorst@gmail.com designates 64.233.162.236 as permitted sender) Received: from [64.233.162.236] (HELO nz-out-0506.google.com) (64.233.162.236) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:59:56 +0000 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id o37so114225nzf for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:59:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=B1nm176mGR6knBKcw++6pKSGtIHcDYjyFo+UA8a1KmE=; b=Oyg+4c6ZIdun9152L3qg2SoLwrQ++xEFuYLpMQjvqbU5TdcSyrv5r1VOyVBptpB0DLMsDNaFSz2HoLoXduPt7Rj7EtMNSW3uOougeb9ZXYs67Nj+VBBHu0aopouh7OJyAQFOYUcchKYTC0AdMk0V4+Pp0rgJ7c8fwgqbkjzS0ds= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nFWZTanXgtlRMLBjkiWCHUZu38CcYN23sra5CeBhR7fowDG1ARTPAiNZoUbP67XPL2jKWvAhJdqdNE9Bmf2C8qQpIplg8C8nJsiyhEqFC6izr7RHC5k97unY9Arg3BhjzAu3BFQAzAzstW40u8Yt/8ljkrWN23jPMtNHScCF52M= Received: by 10.142.231.7 with SMTP id d7mr2300659wfh.1191491975361; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.113.15 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 02:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <918312fe0710040259if86ea92u3f2cfa4f0f03f745@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:59:35 +0200 From: "Martijn Dashorst" To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: RAT^H^H^H Proposal In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org I like the fact that a rat smells disaster a mile away (it is usually the first to jump ship). +1 for incubating the rat. Martijn On 10/3/07, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > i'm preparing http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/RatProposal but i > thought i'd get the most controvercial and difficult aspect out of the > way: the name. > > i quite like the name RAT since it's a play on words a Release Audit > Tool which rats on releases. (i was also born in the year of the rat.) > so, i expect people to find a thousand good reasons why it shouldn't > be used. > > to get you all started, here are some links: > > http://www.cv.tu-berlin.de/rat/license.php > http://www.blackrat.biz/ > http://www.frtr.gov/decisionsupport/DST_Tools/RAT.htm > http://epa.instepsoftware.com/rat/ > http://wiki.wwiionline.com/index.php/Cornered_Rat_Software > http://neonrat.com/ > > yes, lots of people use rat in relation to software > > since RAT is so widely used, the name of the google project is arat. > i'm not sure why but the project is #3 at google and #2 at yahoo. so > aRAT is more plausable. there seems to be a place called arat in the > US and it seems to be a sur- and first-name. these probably weight > against this option. > > opinions? > > - robert > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org > > -- Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta3 is released Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta3/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org