El 22/02/11 02:07, intrigeri escribió:
> Hi!
>
> Proposal: rename our project from "The (Amnesic) Incognito Live
> System" to "The Amnesic Incognito Live System". I.e. from T(A)ILS to
> TAILS. This actually was suggested by anonym on IRC.
>
> Deadline: 1 week, i.e. the 1st of March.
Yes ! I've been dying to kick it out since the first time I saw it ;)
> ,----
> | Why?
> `----
>
> 0. The amnesic nature of T(A)ILS seems as important as the incognito
> one to me. It's indeed what makes T(A)ILS special e.g. compared to
> the Tor Browser Bundle.
> 1. Lots of people and places, including the Tor website, have already
> got into the habit of removing the parenthesis. I myself am often
> too lazy to type these. It would be easier to look for
> T(A)ILS-related stuff in a search engine if the project was named
> consistently everywhere.
> 2. Nicer URLs e.g. when subscribing our project to CIA.vc or other
> services (I've done this recently, more on this soon... when I get
> the things I wanted to work). This one is a real minor one, sure.
If I'd dare I would even propose to remove the capital letter and just
write Tails, instead of TAILS or T(A)ILS. Other neat projects have gone
this way, say… Tor [1]. This seems to be a further step to typographical
maturity, but sure we can go one thing at a time…
[1]
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#WhyCalledTor
> ,----
> | How?
> `----
>
> I volunteer to implement the change, i.e. to run not-that-ugly Perl
> one-liners against the website content and our source code to start
> with, and adapt text on other online places accordingly when I run
> into one faulty occurrence.
>
> Some changes, though, such as every developer's Git configuration,
> shall be made by individuals on their own.
I volunteer to help you do that or relieve you from some parts of it.
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sajolida
