Re: [BFG-dev] Discussion: bfgminer name

[Luke-Jr]

On Wednesday, February 05, 2014 4:08:55 AM Nathanial Woolls wrote:
> What are your (Luke) and everyone's thoughts on the name bfgminer? I think
> there are several reasons renaming the project may be beneficial in the
> long run:

I agree with the reasons for changing the name, but we'd also lose our 
positive history and well-knownness to some extent as well.. Experience shows 
that when the name changed last (from "cgminer", to avoid confusion), many 
people couldn't "follow" the changed name over.

> So my proposition would be to choose a new name. In the past when I've
> considered this I kept gravitating back to "xgminer". I already use this
> term internally for basically meaning "whatever miner, bfgminer, cgminer,
> sgminer" when I am writing code against common miners.

I don't think we should hijack an established term - people already know 
xgminer as inclusive of cgminer at least.

I thought the contest I held (around the 3.0 release) was pretty successful at 
coming up with a few decent ideas; perhaps we should have something like that 
again (assuming we decide to move forward on the name change)?

Luke