Proposal: Rename Repo!

[ethanfrey]

Basecoin is not a good name for a framework as this is becoming.

Basecoin is a wonderful name for the executable we use in all the examples. cmd/basecoin is perfect.

As we work on making this even more extensible as a framework and the basecoin logic just another configuration, we should have a new name for the repo. Everything under cmd/... should keep the same name and distribution and all.

Also, it would be good to merge all the user-facing (cli) stuff from light-client into this repo, while we move the crypto-verification logic into tendermint itself.

This issue is to discuss new name for a repo that people will import into (hopefully) most of the abci apps built in golang.

[ethanfrey]

Proposal: github.com/tendermint/dapps

It is a tool to build out distributed applications. We want you to build your dapp with this repo. Let's use an established word, I don't think there are other repos with this name.

[rigelrozanski]

I think the best one I've come up with is tendermint/haxolotl - hacks meets axolotl. The coolest shapeshifting amphibian. DApps is an ethereum thing = decentralized application, which is a good starting place. Are there any other cool ways to put a spin on it? Maybe something with scattered in it - that's a cool word that is distributed. tendermint/scatter

[adrianbrink]

I think dapps would be confusing and would mean that we compete with ethereum in google rankings, which at least initially will make it hard for people to google us and find the correct content.

I think scatter is good, since it is easy to pronounce and remember how to type.

I also like spargo.

Also, instead of renaming can we create a new repo with the new name and link it. Otherwise a lot of our search results will be broken as well as our internal links.

[ethanfrey]

I like dapps precisely for the searchability. People know the term and a search for "tendermint dapps" will hit the repo or docs.

I also like haxlotl. A unique term and it does sound cool. Not sure how many people will mis spell it.

Scatter is such a generic term that we won't appear anywhere in search results

[ethanfrey]

Dapps is bigger than ethereum, it is a concept now. Example for searching.

https://www.google.de/search?q=Eos+dapp&oq=Eos+dapp&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j69i65j69i60.1842j0j4&client=ms-android-sonymobile&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
https://www.google.de/search?client=ms-android-sonymobile&ei=PkhGWezrFMfawQKToqHIDA&q=Tezos+dapp&oq=Tezos+dapp&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.3..33i160k1l2.62525.64611.0.65375.12.10.0.1.1.0.853.2864.0j1j2j5-2j1.6.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..6.6.2223.3..0j41j0i10k1.3WxRWYlo2qs

[hughrooney]

I have always liked the word "Magrathea" from Hitchhikers Guide. It was the planet that built custom planets. Talk about your large scale framework.

[repj1]

Quarks.

[rigelrozanski]

@jbsch this says it all - Quarks are one of the buiding blocks of atoms = great idea. Um really anything from this chart... is there a better one than quarks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle#/media/File:Standard_Model_of_Elementary_Particles.svg

[repj1]

Thanks!!

As per the link above, and since there are six different types of quarks, they could be used as sub types or fractions (Like the Wei or the mBTC), Quarks>Tops>Ups>Downs>Bottoms?

[rigelrozanski]

Leptons can travel faster than the speed of light (that's pretty cool!) maybe we could name it leptons because are transactions will travel faster than the speed of light (and EMC2 coin)

[repj1]

I like that too. The same idea for subtokens could be applied w/ Lepton building blocks: Lepton>Electron>Muon>Tau (although I do love the simplicity of top/up/down/bottom, but they're both fun and very applicable). 💃 @rigelrozanski

[rigelrozanski]

I think quarks - Jae gave the party emoji haha

[hughrooney]

Hi Guys, great concept, just one possible problem http://www.quark.com/en/ . (They are content automation software and they are also a Gartner Cool Vendor like Tendermint)

It is very difficult to find a name with significance that someone has not already used.

[repj1]

No worries, shouldn't be an issue, especially for smaller elements of larger open source projects. See previous use of other common names like:

Atom (Cisco) - http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios/12_0s/feature/guide/fsatom30.html
Atom (Disambig) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(disambiguation)
Cosmos (Disambig) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_(disambiguation)

[hughrooney]

Sounds good!

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[ethanfrey]

So, quarks then?

github.com/tendermint/quarks

If there are no objections, I can close this issue and make a new issue - "Rename Repo to quarks"

[hughrooney]

I think we can put a good spin on it!

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[ethanfrey]

@ebuchman you didn't like the name? can you add some more ideas here... otherwise i have to go with the popularity contest....

[ethanfrey]

Basecoin + Tendermint = BaseMint hehehe

(thank you tectract from slack)

[adrianbrink]

I think Quarks doesn't lend itself as a framework name. It sounds more like a product.

What about Lignia or Lignum?

[hughrooney]

How about RUFF-Blockchains . (Reusable Universal Framework For - Blockchains) .🤔 . or "Ruffby" for short

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[ethanfrey]

Oh, and Ideally the name of the repo is not too long (like <=6 chars... I find crypto.X or log.X much easier to write than basecoin.X, especially when all the arguments have a type defined there... already have some long function calls.

Most proposed names fit this criteria, just saying...

[rigelrozanski]

still think quarks is the best name - not going to get better than the building blocks of atoms

[rigelrozanski]

...hmm still thinking it almost seems like basecoin is quickly eating all the cosmos functionality - maybe moving from 0.7 we just rename the repo to cosmos???? The more I think about it, the more I think we should keep all the cosmos functionality non-separate from the framework, don't disintegrate the repo only to later recombine like was done with tendermint - related: https://github.com/tendermint/basecoin/issues/153

[ethanfrey]

Agreed up. Closing this discussion issue for the action issue: #159

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