Annual report: Drafts review - The XDG-App story, continued

[Emmanuele Bassi]

Hi Jeff;

the name "flatpak" was proposed[0] and it's in the process of being adopted[1].

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

[0]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg-app/2016-May/000195.html
[1]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg-app/2016-May/000204.html

On 13 May 2016 at 05:00, Jeff F. T. <nekohayo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Uh oh, looks like I'll have to fork this thread and turn it into a
> cross-mailing list one!
>
>
> Le jeudi 12 mai 2016 à 12:59 -0700, Adelia Rahim a écrit :
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> It has taken a while, but finally we have the bulk of the articles ready for
> review;
>
> 1) Hackfests
> 2) Releases
> 3) Conferences
> 4) Feature article on Xdg-app and Builder
> 5) Outreach
> 6) Accessibility
>
> For the reviewers, focus first on content for accuracy and also clarity. I
> need your assistance to complete the review by Friday, 20 May 2016. (an
> article a day helps defray the workload :) )
>
> I’m not expecting major comments on structure and style, as (most of) the
> writers involved have written for the annual report before. However, if
> there are any major areas for improvement, please highlight.
>
> As you go along, also look out for spelling, punctuation, capitalisation and
> consistencies in words and terminologies.
>
> Those on the mailing list, you can also provide feedback at this phase :)
>
> Let’s do this!
>
> best,
> adelia
>
> Main Initiative Page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/AnnualReport/2015
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>
> Well, I have a question regarding the "Feature article on Xdg-app and
> Builder" currently being drafted for the GNOME Annual Report... XDG-App has
> often been written as "xdg-app", "Xdg-App" or some other variants. It seems
> it was not used in a standardized way so far. For example:
>
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps ("Xdg-App")
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg-app ("xdg-app")
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-app/ ("xdg-app")
>
> To me, the current name makes more sense to be capitalized as "XDG-App", or
> "XDG App" (as far as I know, XDG is an acronym for "X Desktop Group")… But!
> It so happens that there was a larger discussion two months ago about the
> problematic branding of the project, in the thread "The xdg-app story", at
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg-app/2016-March/thread.html — that
> discussion had quite a bit of traction, and alternative project names were
> proposed. It ended with "almost a decision", but no clear announcement on
> what was decided after all. At that time there was, as Alexander said, "no
> super hurry".
>
> …well, that's until I come in and mess with your plans, folks ;)
>
> Indeed, the annual report makes settling this a bit more urgent, in my view.
> It would be great if we could get the naming nailed down before the words
> are etched forever on dead trees—it would hurt the visibility of the
> project's new identity if we were to publish a brand new article using the
> old naming.
>
> According to the Annual Report's wiki page, the plan is to get it off the
> printing press by the end of June... so time is of the essence.
>
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