Samba Engineer wanted ...

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Feb 16 16:40:19 UTC 2016


On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:14:15PM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> 
> Well, on a serious note, Samba is certainly part of
> various HyperConverged setups, but since this by
> definition involves multiple components, it is nothing
> that Samba can easliy achieve alone... Then again, we
> are already at least a converged setup of smb, nmb,
> rpc, ldap, dns, krb ... servers. :-)
> 
> But what is really important for a hipster project, is
> having funky (but somewhat arbitrary) code names for
> components and releases, that at least I can really _never_
> ever memorize. ;-)
> 
> I have thought hard about this over the past few weeks,
> and here are as a starting point some that we could use:
> 
>   wheelbarrow
>   lobotomy
>   megalith
>   trolley
>   posthesis
>   juggler
>   tulip
>   dunghill
>   buzzer
>   tautology
>   cesarean
>   megalomania
>   aphrodisiac
>   ...

Oh. I *love* these ! I vote we rename immediately:

smbd -> lobotomy
nmbd -> dunghill
winbindd -> megalomania
samba -> wheelbarrow

Oh course, these are only the names for the *next*
release. We'll have to change them again for the
release after that.

Anyone with me ? :-).



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