[Hawkular-dev] open shift agent - what to call it?

[John Doyle]

I actually like "hawkulark".  Why have only one bird when you can have two.

I'm sure to repeatedly misspell it, but that's true of most things I type.

~jd

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:08 PM, John Mazzitelli <mazz at redhat.com> wrote:

> OK, folks, as much as I hate these "what should we name this thing?"
> threads, I have to do it.
>
> We are at the point where we are going to start going full-throttle on
> building out an agent that can monitor things on Open Shift (and Heiko
> wants to be able to monitor things outside of Open Shift - I'll let him
> chime in on what his use cases are to get a better feel for what he's
> thinking)
>
> We need a name ASAP so we can create a repository under the Hawkular
> github namespace and put the code up there so people can start working on
> it. I would like to do this sooner rather than later - say, by Thursday???
>
> Matt was thinking "hawkulark" (Hawk-U-Lark, Hawkular-K) because "k" ==
> kubernetes.
>
> I was thinking "GoHawk" (rhymes with "mohawk") because it is implemented
> in "Go"
>
> I wasn't keen on relying on "kubernetes" as part of the name since its
> really targeting Open Shift and even then doesn't have to run in Open Shift
> (back to the ideas Heiko has for this thing).
>
> "GoHawk" doesn't seem to be a winner simply because what happens if we
> implement other hawkular feeds in Golang?
>
> I'm assuming we'll come up with a name and agree to it collectively as a
> group - but I nominate Thomas H, Heiko R, and John D. as the committee to
> give the final approval/tie-breaking authority :) It won't be me. I suck at
> coming up with names.
>
> --John Mazz
>
> P.S. Who knows how to setup one of those online polls/surveys where you
> can enter your submissions and vote for other submissions?
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