[sakai2-tcc] Policy - naming of Contrib tools

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

We could replace 2 with Too. ;-)

On 13/09/2013 02:56, Mark J. Norton wrote:
> Still, what would you call Gradebook2 or Assignment2? These were
> intended to be logical successors to the tools they replaced.
>
> - Mark
>
> On 9/12/2013 8:50 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>> Rather than a policy in contrib, have a policy for core. So if a
>> contrib tool is promoted to core and it has a name like Tool2 or
>> ToolWow, and the name isn't great, it's name changes at that point.
>> This could also be part of the incubation process - checking the name
>> of the project for legal or other issues. This happened for TinyUrl
>> which is now ShortenedUrlService.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Mark J. Norton
>> <markjnorton at earthlink.net <mailto:markjnorton at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     > Would the TCC/PMC like to request for the existing tools to be
>>     renamed so that it does not cause so much confusion in the
>>     community (many assume that these are the next generation tools to
>>     which they should look to upgrade)?
>>
>>     The Sakai community is already familiar with Gradebook2 and
>>     Assignment2. Changing those names at this point is likely to cause
>>     more problems than solve. Yeah, it makes sense to avoid this in
>>     the future, but these should be grandfathered in.
>>
>>     - Mark
>>
>>
>>     On 9/12/2013 2:45 PM, Neal Caidin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     Also coming out of the discussion of
>>>     https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/TCC/TCC+CLE+Action+Items
>>>
>>>     Frustration expressed around naming of Contrib tools in the
>>>     community that look like a sequel to an existing tool before that
>>>     has been decided. Assignments2 and Gradebook2 are the examples
>>>     (are there other tools with this kind of naming)?
>>>
>>>     Would it make sense for the TCC / PMC to have a policy that
>>>     Contrib tools not be named as a sequential, by default, name?
>>>
>>>     Would the TCC/PMC like to request for the existing tools to be
>>>     renamed so that it does not cause so much confusion in the
>>>     community (many assume that these are the next generation tools
>>>     to which they should look to upgrade)?
>>>
>>>     Cheers,
>>>     Neal
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Neal Caidin
>>>     Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
>>>     neal.caidin at apereo.org <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
>>>     Skype: nealkdin
>>>     Twitter: ncaidin