[tor-dev] Renaming arm

[Tom Ritter]

Does it backronym to anything? Can it? ;)

-tom
On Mar 10, 2015 11:45 AM, "Damian Johnson" <atagar at torproject.org> wrote:

> Hmmm, thread about something as squishing and infinitely debatable as
> a name. What could go wrong? But before you get excited I've already
> picked one, this is just to sanity check with the community that I'm
> not making a stupid mistake... again.
>
> Five years ago when I started arm [1] I had the following criteria for
> picking its name...
>
>   1. It needs to be short. This is a terminal command so anything
> lengthy is just begging people to alias it down.
>
>   2. It should be reasonably memorable. Sorry, no 'z62*'.
>
>   3. No naming conflict with other technical things. Body parts though
> are fair game though.
>
> Clearly the name failed at #3. When I picked it the ARM processor was
> just barely becoming a thing, but time marched on and now every irc
> discussion goes...
>
>   new_person: New relay operator here, any tips?
>   somebody: Hey, try arm!
>   new_person: The processor? I'm so confused now.
>   somebody: Nope, something completely different. It's a confusing name.
>
> I'm rewriting the whole bloody codebase so why not fix this along the way?
>
> So without further ado the name I've picked is 'Seth'. It's easy to
> type (#1), memorable (#2), and from what I can tell no SETH processors
> are on the horizon. I've reserved the name on PyPI, and searchs on
> wikipedia looks fine (most interesting match is the Egyptian god [2],
> which is actually kinda neat).
>
> So now just a final sanity check with you, our wonderful community.
> Any strong reasons to pick something else? Nothing is set in stone yet
> so still open to alternatives.
>
> Cheers! -Damian
>
>
> [1] https://www.atagar.com/arm/
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_%28mythology%29
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