On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Andre Merzky wrote:
I think the name SAGA-CORE-WG is misleading, as the strawman does not really define a Core API. That role, defining the core, look and feel, and basic paradigms, would rather fit the target of the RG.
Definitely. In the future the SAGA WGs will presumably be named according to the functional area they are producing an API for, e.g. SAGA-GridCPR-WG, but that would be unwieldy for this initial group, so I had to suggest something 8-)
However, during yesterdays discussion we could not come up with a better name, really. Just so you all have something to laugh at, I'll repeat some suggestions below. Well, the point of this mail is: if you can think of a suitable group name, please speak up!
iSAGA (very fashionable, for initial SAGA)
Perhaps SAGA-Init-WG ? Or SAGA-Kickstart-WG, or SAGA-FLJST-WG (Files Logical-files Jobs Streams Tasks) ?
SAGA-PRIMER (obvious)
Sounds more like a group producing a programming primer.
SSAGA (confusing, but stands for Super simple API...)
Too generic; it suggests it is doing something super within SAGA, rather than 'just' being a group producing a set of APIs for a well defined set of funtional areas.
My personal favourite for today is (cling on tight)
SAGA-WG
Well, that might be confusing with SAGA-RG, but what the heck - it describes what we do best I think...
I think it would be confusing, not so much with the RG, but more in that the name suggests it is producing the whole SAGA API, and not just a well defined set of APIs. Cheers, Tom