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by PeterWhittaker 55 days ago
Congrats on the work, but have you considered another name? Naming is hard and always will be: When I first scanned the headline, my initial thought was "that's an interesting area for the Rocky Linux team to explore". After a moment, "wait, no, that's confusing, it's some other Rocky".
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hugocorreia90 55 days ago
Thanks Peter. All my side-projects are named after my pets. I had a dog named Rocky and given this project is also an underdog competing with well-established tools such as dbt and sqlmesh, I decided to keep Rocky when opening it to public. But I'm happy to get some suggestions for a better name to this tool :)
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PeterWhittaker 55 days ago
I love that! I am inspired to create Terry, Tizzie, Topé, Bubba, and Roxy (the three Ts are in my office right now), the last two are no longer with us but for the hole in my heart.

I have no idea what these projects would be, but based on personalities, Roxy would chew through CPU and memory like a beaver (she loved turning large branches into small chunks), Bubba would inspire calm and peacefulness but walk into things (he was one-eyed and a little clumsy), Terry would stick like glue (an eBPF program, maybe?), Tizzie would work well most of the time then destroy your stuff (an AI agent?), and Topé would always be there, but never quite willing to participate (a bad Windows driver?).

I don't the area well enough at all to suggest an alternate name, but maybe Wiley, which is an indirect reference to Dag from Barnyard via Wile E. Coyote?

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hugocorreia90 54 days ago
Love your pet names and how you characterize them if you would name something after them :) Wiley is an interesting name!

I have another side-project, still private, which I named Shimi, my current dog's name. I'd thought naming my dog Sashimi, but Shimi is just shorter and simpler. I'm now considering stealing the name from my this other side-project for renaming Rocky, but I'll put more thought into it :)

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hobofan 55 days ago
I fear that there is an even closer candidate for confusion: RocksDB
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hugocorreia90 54 days ago
Oh yeah, good call.
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