Approving of the WINEprobe initiative

[Scott Ritchie]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:20 +0100, David Gümbel wrote:

> 1) At the option of the respective software vendor whose product we'll be 
> analyzing for WINE compatibility, Application Database Entries will be 
> maintained by us once a software product has been analyzed for its 
> compatibility with WINE.
> 

Excellent.  AppDB seems to be almost ready, and some dedicated developer
maintainers would be an amazing thing.

> 2) Reports of successful porting or migration projects will be given back to 
> the community as success stories. My colleage is already working on merging 
> some success stories supplied by third parties (see [6]). 
> 



> 3) WRS has offered to help out in hosting the WINE developers conference 
> Wineconf in 2005 in the Stuttgart area[7].
> 
> 

I'd love to head out to Stuttgart if someone would be willing to fly me
there.  As it stands I can only really afford to go on long roadtrips
about the United States.  Either way, I'm probably not that important.

> If there are any questions open, please feel free to ask.
> 

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> 
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel%40winehq.org/msg11549.html
> [2] WINEprobe means be something like WINEtasting in english an maybe 
>     "degustation de WINE" in french. 

I'm going to echo the sentiment that WINEprobe is a horrible name in
English.  Frankly, when I think of probes I think of aliens or doctors
doing nasty experiments on my body parts.  At best, I think of a probing
attack with troops on a battlefield.

A better name would be the alluded to WINEtasting mentioned here.  It
may be a tad cliche, but at least it doesn't drum up horrible images.

However, I think we have an opportunity to make a really crafty and
invigorating name here.  My personal favorite would be to combine the
concept of a "port" for software with the class of dessert wine known as
"port."  It would be a really delicious pun, and it would drum up the
right images.

So, yes, I support the PortWINE initiative.  :)

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie
scott at open-vote.org
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