Looking for a name for a deployment framework...

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2013-06-24, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 24/06/2013 13:50, Roy Smith wrote:
>> In article <8b0d8931-cf02-4df4-8f17-a47ddd279d65 at googlegroups.com>,
>>   jonathan.slenders at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic server
>>> deployments?
>>>
>>> It's like Fabric, but more powerful.
>>> It has some similarities with Puppet, Chef and Saltstack, but is written in
>>> Python.
>>>
>>> Key points are that it uses Python, but is still very declarative and
>>> supports introspection. It supports parallel deployments, and interactivity.
>>> And it has a nice commandline shell with autocompletion for traversing the
>>> deployment tree.
>>>
>>> The repository:
>>> https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-deployer/tree/refactoring-a-lot-v2
>>>
>>>
>>> Suggestions welcome :)
>>> Jonathan
>>
>> Without forming any opinion on the software itself, the best advice I
>> can offer is that naming puns are very popular.  If you're thinking of
>> this as a fabric replacement, I would go with cloth, textile, material,
>> gabardine, etc.
>
> Snakeskin? Oh, I see that's already taken. :-(

Most things are taken nowadays.

A short nonsense-word is best. Something like "Folaf". Yeah, it
doesn't spark the imagination, but it's easy to find, if not to
remember.

Well, not "Folaf." That seems to be an African style restaurant
in L.A.

-- 
Neil Cerutti