[Wasabi] Project renaming

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2007/3/17, jamie <jamiemcc at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:29 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > 2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
> >         2007/3/16, Luca Dionisi <luca.dionisi at gmail.com>:
> >                 On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
> >                 <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >                 > Also I don't even know what
> >                 > Xdg stands for :-)
> >
> >                 I found this:
> >                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg
> >
> >                 I am for the politically correct XdgSomething
> >
> >         Ah, thanks, now I know that :-)
> >
> >         I'm not sure if we need some kind of blessing to brand it as
> >         Xdg though... Is there are formal *group* behind the "g", or
> >         is it just a loose group of people with similar interests?
> >
> >
> > Ok,  here's a  round up:
> >
> >  - Brassica : Already taken.
> >  - Sinapis : Appears to be clean. Good because it is close to synapse
> > which is a connection, and bad because it is close to synaptic (the
> > package manager)
> >  - Galanga : Appears clean. G could insinuate Gnome connection. Close
> > to Galago and Galaga which are both interely different software
> > projects
> >  - Karashi : Appears clean. Could indicate KDE relation.
> >  - Pequin : Appears clean. Looks and sounds a bit odd.
> >  - Aji : Appears clean. There's something about it I dislike
> >  - XdgSearch: Totally clean (zero google hits). The "boring" but
> > serious name. We do more than searching in the strict sense though
>
> I thought the raison d'etre of wasabi is to create a common search
> interface?
>
> (and its most likely modus operandi will be for performing searches no
> doubt)



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.

Cheers,
Mikkel
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