I love short 2-3 letters commands, they feel super UNIX-y and arm was one of them. Some alternatives:
trm - Tor Relay Monitor Can't find any notable clash in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRM Clash if read as "trim"
tm - Tor Monitor Maybe clashing in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM#Electronics_and_media
Not that seth is MUCH longer then arm anyway :-P
Cheers, Marco
----- Original Message ----- From: "Damian Johnson" atagar@torproject.org To: tor-dev@lists.torproject.org Sent: Tuesday, 10 March, 2015 4:45:19 PM Subject: [tor-dev] Renaming arm
Hmmm, thread about something as squishing and infinitely debatable as a name. What could go wrong? But before you get excited I've already picked one, this is just to sanity check with the community that I'm not making a stupid mistake... again.
Five years ago when I started arm [1] I had the following criteria for picking its name...
1. It needs to be short. This is a terminal command so anything lengthy is just begging people to alias it down.
2. It should be reasonably memorable. Sorry, no 'z62*'.
3. No naming conflict with other technical things. Body parts though are fair game though.
Clearly the name failed at #3. When I picked it the ARM processor was just barely becoming a thing, but time marched on and now every irc discussion goes...
new_person: New relay operator here, any tips? somebody: Hey, try arm! new_person: The processor? I'm so confused now. somebody: Nope, something completely different. It's a confusing name.
I'm rewriting the whole bloody codebase so why not fix this along the way?
So without further ado the name I've picked is 'Seth'. It's easy to type (#1), memorable (#2), and from what I can tell no SETH processors are on the horizon. I've reserved the name on PyPI, and searchs on wikipedia looks fine (most interesting match is the Egyptian god [2], which is actually kinda neat).
So now just a final sanity check with you, our wonderful community. Any strong reasons to pick something else? Nothing is set in stone yet so still open to alternatives.
Cheers! -Damian
[1] https://www.atagar.com/arm/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_%28mythology%29 _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev