2007/3/17, jamie <<a href="mailto:jamiemcc@blueyonder.co.uk">jamiemcc@blueyonder.co.uk</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:23 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > > > The goal of the Wasabi - or xesam project is to be an umbrella project > for things related to search and metadata specs. For example the > metadata field name spec is not related to searching in the strict > sense. Also stuff like tagging/emblems might fall partly under the > xesam umbrella. > > What we have done until now is work on the "xesam search > specification", what we have slowly started is the "xesam metadata > spec", with time and if it falls naturally there might be something on > tagging/emblems too. The "flagship product" will likely be the search > spec though, but other things might benefit from being in a consistent > spec where it fits naturally into the context of the other related > specs. > is that name final then? Xesam just seems less memorable and less pronounceable than wasabi. (It fails to roll off the tongue if you see what I mean.) How about name of a famous tracker/hunter -  maybe "geronimo"?</blockquote><div> <a href="http://geronimo.apache.org/">http://geronimo.apache.org/ </a>  </div>It was actually deliberate to pick a less "bling" name. After all the name of the spec is not what people should remember. It is the apps implementing them! In the end I think we will all learn to live with the great loss of the Wasabi name :-) xesam is like the new pair of shoes you buy right after your favorite pair falls completely apart :-) - perfectly fine, but not quite the old ones. Cheers, Mikkel </div>