Samba Engineer wanted ...

ronnie sahlberg ronniesahlberg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 17:11:57 UTC 2016


On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> 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 ? :-).
>

Drop the last vowel in each word. Add some -zer where appropriate.
Sprinkle with some unusual characters like q and z.
Makes it better.


> smbd -> lobotomzer
> nmbd -> dunghll
> winbindd -> megaloqman
> samba -> wheelzbarrw



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