Re: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:20:52PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
> > From: Ryan Bloom [mailto:rbb@covalent.net]
> > Sent: 29 September 2001 07:19
>...
> > Okay, this has been decided by the PMC.  We will accept this project.  The
> > name that the PMC would like to use for this project is apr-serf.
> 
> Ok, great.  One question though: why 'serf'?

OtherBill had a very good point, in that "apr-client" is a bit too generic.
He suggested "apr-htclient" but I thought that was a bit too much of a
mouthful for a project name...

I suggested taking a page from the XML and Java guys, and using a more
interesting name. So... I figured "a client is subservient to the server".
So the name "serf" works well in that regard, meaning a slave to the server.
It is also a homonym for "surf", which is what an HTTP client does...

Seems like others agreed, and so now we have apr-serf :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

RE: [PROPOSAL] apr-client

[Sander Striker <st...@apache.org>]

> From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein@lyra.org]
> Sent: 01 October 2001 08:27

> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:20:52PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
>>> From: Ryan Bloom [mailto:rbb@covalent.net]
>>> Sent: 29 September 2001 07:19
>>...
>>> Okay, this has been decided by the PMC.  We will accept this
>>> project.  The name that the PMC would like to use for this
>>> project is apr-serf.
>>
>> Ok, great.  One question though: why 'serf'?
>
> OtherBill had a very good point, in that "apr-client" is a bit
> too generic.
> He suggested "apr-htclient" but I thought that was a bit too much of a
> mouthful for a project name...
>
> I suggested taking a page from the XML and Java guys, and using a more
> interesting name. So... I figured "a client is subservient to the server".
> So the name "serf" works well in that regard, meaning a slave to
> the server.
> It is also a homonym for "surf", which is what an HTTP client does...

Right.  Thanks for explaining, because this was indeed the only thing
I wanted to know: where it came from :)

> Seems like others agreed, and so now we have apr-serf :-)

I can live with that without problems :) :)

> Cheers,
> -g

Sander