RE: New name for new "KernelCI"

["Gustavo Padovan" <gus@collabora.com>]

On Thursday, May 23, 2024 13:10 EDT, Trilok Soni <tsoni@quicinc.com> wrote:

> Nikolai,
> 
> How about Yuga? It means following. 
> 
> Yuga:
> Meaning: “Era” or “Age.”
> Attributes: Experienced (through time), powerful, and open.
> Context: Yuga represents cycles of time and evolution.

That's interesting. One thing that I have been saying a lot lately is that we have a kernel that is 33 years old already, so the KernelCI architecture we have been putting in place lately is to be a foundation of something that will last generations.

The thing we need to name sits at the center of that coordinating tests specs, triggers, running tests and facilitating the job for multiple CI systems to join the party.

Best

- Gus

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> ---Trilok Soni
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> From: Nikolai Kondrashov <spbnick@gmail.com> 
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> Subject: New name for new "KernelCI"
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> As you know, we've been developing the new KernelCI API [1], and the kernelci-pipeline [2] based on it, for quite a while.
> 
> However, by now it seems that too many things are being called "KernelCI": the project, pieces of the old system, pieces of the new system. We would also like to give the name of KernelCI the project a wider scope than just a particular CI system, and accommodate more packages/projects under its name.
> 
> So we would like to propose to call the new system "KernelCI <Something>".
> 
> And this message is about that "<Something>".
> 
> I think it would be good to have the new name associate with one or more of the below qualities/functions (but feel free to dispute and extend this):
> 
> * focused
> * simple
> * powerful
> * experienced (as in arising from experience)
> * open
> * distributed
> * commanding (a fleet)
> * kernel-related
> * bug-related
> 
> One of the current working names, that Gustavo Padovan has proposed, is "Maestro". As in "KernelCI Maestro". It hits the following associations:
> focused, powerful, experienced, commanding.
> 
> As a joke and to come up with an example, I suggested "Kraken", that is "KernelCI Kraken", which hits these: powerful, experienced (it's old), simple (minded), focused (on sinking ships), distributed (it has tentacles),
> 
> Keeping things short, here are all the ideas so far, in alphabetic order:
> 
> * KernelCI Anthill - bug-related, distributed, commanding, focused
> * KernelCI Arrow - focused, simple, powerful
> * KernelCI Kraken - powerful, experienced, simple, focused, distributed
> * KernelCI Lens - focused, powerful, simple
> * KernelCI Lighthouse - focused, simple, powerful, commanding, experienced
> * KernelCI Maestro - focused, powerful, experienced, commanding
> * KernelCI Needle (in a haystack) - focused, simple, powerful, experienced
> * KernelCI Nucleus - kernel-related, simple, powerful (when split)
> * KernelCI PristineCI - simple, open
> * KernelCI Pulse - focused, simple, powerful, experienced
> * KernelCI Tamanduá (anteater in Spanish) - bug-related, simple, focused
> * KernelCI Trails - focused, experienced, distributed
> * KernelCI Warden - focused, powerful, experienced, commanding
> 
> I would appreciate any arguments and ideas about this. Once we have all the names we can think of, and strike out ones we definitely don't like, I'll create and post a poll here to pick one.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Nick
> TSC Chair
> 
> [1] https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-api
> [2] https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-pipeline
>