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author | Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org> | 2019-08-28 09:12:16 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org> | 2019-08-28 09:12:16 +0100 |
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Not Fable
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diff --git a/posts/not-fable.mdwn b/posts/not-fable.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4bc3695 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/not-fable.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +[[!meta title="RFH: Naming things is hard"]] +[[!meta author="Daniel Silverstone"]] +[[!meta date="2019-08-28 09:10:00 +0100"]] + +As with all things in computing, one of two problems always seem to raise their +ugly heads… We either have an off-by-one error, or we have a caching error, or +we have a naming problem. + +[Lars][] and I have been working on an acceptance testing tool recently. You +may have seen the [soft launch][] announcement on Lars' blog. Sadly since that +time we've discovered that _Fable_ is an overloaded name in the domain of +software quality assurance and we do not want to try and compete with [Fable][] +since (a) they were there first, and (b) accessibility is super-important and +we don't want to detract from the work they're doing. + +[Lars]: https://www.liw.fi/ +[soft launch]: https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2019/08/24/fable_for_acceptance_testing/ +[Fable]: https://www.makeitfable.com/ + +As such, this is a request for help. We need to name our tool usefully, since +how can we make a git repository until we have a name? Previous incarnations +of the tool were called _Yarn_ and we chose _Fable_ to carry on the sense of +telling a story (the fundamental unit of testing in these systems is a +scenario), but we are not wedded to the idea of continuing in the same vein. + +If you have an idea for a name for our tool, please consider reading about it +[on the Fable website][website], and then either comment here, or send me an +email, prod me on IRC, or indeed any of the various ways you have to find me. + +[website]: https://fable.liw.fi/ |