On Jan 2, 2008 11:06 PM, David Metzler <<a href="mailto:metzlerd@metzlerd.com">metzlerd@metzlerd.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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For the record, yeah I knew that's what distros meant, and it was that suggestion that got me thinking we needed to start a brainstorming session. I frankly would be happy with distros. <div><br></div><div>Sorry if it came off like I was stealing ideas.
</div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Nah. Not what I meant. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="">
<div><br></div><div>Not sure I agree that compound words should be avoided...If they add clarity.... </div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>This is where we disagree. See Earnie Boyd's suggestions earlier in this thread
<br>and the replies to them. I don't agree with Earnie here, and agree with the counter<br>arguments.<br><br>e.g. "Install profile" and "user profile". Too much overloading of terms with qualifiers.
<br><br>KISS.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<div><div><div>On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 2, 2008 10:25 PM, David Metzler <<a href="mailto:metzlerd@metzlerd.com" target="_blank">metzlerd@metzlerd.com</a>
> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I would agree, and humbly suggest that we start brainstorming on
<br>better names for installation profile. Some suggestions: (some have<br>been made already)-<br><br>Distribution (or some variation of distros) seems like a close fit <br>but also implies the software as<br></blockquote>
<div><br>That is actually what distros is. Distro is the short name for that.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Configuration bundles<br><br>Installation Suites<br><br>Configuration wizards<br><br>Install Kits<br></blockquote><div><br>Let us avoid compounded names formed of many words. They are not intuitive.<br><br>Here are others:
<br><br>Packages<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>????<br><br>Not attached to any of these but trying to start some solutions
<br>brainstorming.... ;)<br><br>Dave<br><div><div></div><div><br><br>On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Michelle Cox wrote:<br><br>><br>> On 1/2/2008 2:34:42 PM, Earnie Boyd (<a href="mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">
earnie@users.sourceforge.net</a>)<br>> wrote:<br>>> I understand the misfortune of a module named profile is the point of<br>>> this thread. That module is relative only to user information. In<br>>> order to make it clear to everyone looking at Drupal it needs renamed
<br>>> to User Profile because the word profile is too vague and has many<br>>> connotations to properly denote the meaning of the module.<br>><br>> I really don't think renaming profile to user profile will help any
<br>> since it is install profile that causes the confusion. And I'm not<br>> renaming advanced profile to advanced user profile. It's long<br>> enough of a name as it is. :P<br>><br>> Michelle<br>>
<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">http://2bits.com</a>
<br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.</blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com
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