Samba Engineer wanted ...

Michael Adam obnox at samba.org
Tue Feb 16 17:36:59 UTC 2016


On 2016-02-16 at 08:40 -0800, Jeremy Allison 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 ? :-).

Me, obviously! :-)
Even though I had thought of smbd as the
wheelbarrow (due to its nature of offering
some storage space) and samba as lobotomy...

We could also use

 net -> posthesis
 samba-tool -> aphrodisiac

or maybe the other way around?... ;-)
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