From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>
Cc: "Lukáš Czerner" <lczerner@redhat.com>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>,
"Dave Chinner" <david@fromorbit.com>,
fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:05:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140516140523.GA20683@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1400248927.979.2.camel@sasami.ottawa.blindsidenetworks.com>
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0400, Calvin Walton wrote:
>
> Instead of renaming the test suite, why not just "backronym" it to mean
> something different? The letter x is used to mean "cross" in many
> contexts, so "xfstests" could easily mean "cross-filesystem tests" - a
> name that fits perfectly!
Or maybe "extended file system tests", if people really are concerned
about the naming. Seriously, is this really that important to folks?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-16 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-16 4:46 [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list Dave Chinner
2014-05-16 5:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-16 8:48 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-16 8:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-16 8:55 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-05-16 14:02 ` Calvin Walton
2014-05-16 14:05 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-05-16 22:19 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-19 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-19 21:25 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-16 8:55 ` Sedat Dilek
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