Users don't care how the profiles fit into our system. Users care about what the gizmo does (or what they dream its going to do...). Photoshop doesn't sell its software as a "photoshop installation". Its just photoshop.... Its not a binary-distro (or whatever the equivalent...).

So maybe we should venture in to more generic, open waters: *web application*.

A multi-user moderated blog is a web application. A community calender, mailing list, and forum is a web application. Most people will understand the name to mean (I install this, and its ready to go). The web applications at drupal.org happen to built off of drupal.. but their target audience could give a rats ass. To them its just a web application. "Click here to browse our library of web applications".... just seems right...

Actually how about just "application"? So they are all "Drupal applications".
This goes well with Drupal being a web application framework, and not just a CMS or CMF.

While this is appealing, it is a bit of an overstretch though: a distro/package/install profile is a collection of modules and some custom code to set it up.

Worth considering though.

[digress=on]
Drupal being an web application framework has been discussed many times, see here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7704
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7634

Then again, I've been known to go mad every now and again.

Not today.

Cheers,
Nick Lewis
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On Jan 2, 2008 11:23 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin < kb@2bits.com> wrote:
On Jan 2, 2008 11:06 PM, David Metzler < metzlerd@metzlerd.com> wrote:

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.

Sorry if it came off like I was stealing ideas.

Nah. Not what I meant.

Not sure I agree that compound words should be avoided...If they add clarity....

This is where we disagree. See Earnie Boyd's suggestions earlier in this thread
and the replies to them. I don't agree with Earnie here, and agree with the counter
arguments.

e.g. "Install profile" and "user profile". Too much overloading of terms with qualifiers.

KISS.

Dave

On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:

On Jan 2, 2008 10:25 PM, David Metzler <metzlerd@metzlerd.com > wrote:
I would agree, and humbly suggest that we start brainstorming on
better names for installation profile. Some suggestions: (some have
been made already)-

Distribution (or some variation of distros) seems like a close fit
but also implies the software as

That is actually what distros is. Distro is the short name for that.

Configuration bundles

Installation Suites

Configuration wizards

Install Kits

Let us avoid compounded names formed of many words. They are not intuitive.

Here are others:

Packages

????

Not attached to any of these but trying to start some solutions
brainstorming.... ;)

Dave

On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Michelle Cox wrote:

>
> On 1/2/2008 2:34:42 PM, Earnie Boyd ( earnie@users.sourceforge.net)
> wrote:
>> I understand the misfortune of a module named profile is the point of
>> this thread. That module is relative only to user information. In
>> order to make it clear to everyone looking at Drupal it needs renamed
>> to User Profile because the word profile is too vague and has many
>> connotations to properly denote the meaning of the module.
>
> I really don't think renaming profile to user profile will help any
> since it is install profile that causes the confusion. And I'm not
> renaming advanced profile to advanced user profile. It's long
> enough of a name as it is. :P
>
> Michelle
>

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Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.