Rename Project/Gem?

[kevinelliott]

There have been a few people over the last couple of months who have not liked the name of the project (and thus the gem). It was originally intended to be a sociopolitical statement against the use of the chemical warfare used during wartime (and for experimentation on unknowing people). For whatever reason, it is not necessarily apparent to people and may be offending them. @zeke even went so far to fork and replace all mention of the name to something else.

Should we change the project and gem name? If so, any suggestions?

[zeke]

Thanks for bringing this up @kevinelliott. If you want to go with SpecialAgent I'll gladly relinquish the rubygems.org name.

[kevinelliott]

Thanks Zeke. We'll consider it!

[brain-geek]

This is quite interesting question. It would be nice, if gem name told users what it does. Now, it is difficult to understand what functionality gem with name "agent orange" has.

[swrobel]

+1 for SpecialAgent

[zeke]

I'm still here and still willing to give up the rubygem name rights. :)

[kevinelliott]

@zeke I think we'll make the change. Need to shore up some other tasks first, but I'll ping you soon. Thanks for hanging in there.

[zeke]

Sounds good, @kevinelliott. I added you as an owner. Feel free to blow away the existing version.

$ gem owner special_agent -a [email protected]
Pushing gem to https://rubygems.org...
Owner added successfully.
Pushing gem to https://rubygems.org...
Owners for gem: special_agent
- [email protected]
- [email protected]

[rtdp]

+1

Please change name. I searched a lot and luckily found this gem. Before that ignored it twice seeing its name, though it does exactly what I want.

IMHO name should really reflect what gem does.

[gsamat]

Well, if you want to deliver a message, maybe good to articulate it better, saying it's not a joke on people like this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_vietnamese_Professor_is_pictured_with_a_group_of_handicapped_children.jpg#mediaviewer/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:A_vietnamese_Professor_is_pictured_with_a_group_of_handicapped_children.jpg , but rather a "sociopolitical statement against the use of the chemical warfare" somewhere in the read me (preferable on the top) and thus the issue will be resolved.

It's a great name!

[KaoruDev]

+1 for something else