Random holiday fun: Vote for buildbot naming conventions!

[Austin Seipp]

Hi all,

I closed the polls on this a few days ago, and the results are in. By
popular vote, the candidates from first to third place are:

 1) Famous logicians and Computer Scientists - 21 out of 40 votes.
 2) Boring and descriptive names - 19 out of 40 votes.
 3) NSA Surveillance Tools - 15 out of 40 votes.

So it looks like our bots will be paying homage to our predecessors
and will be named after them. :)

Thanks to the 40 people who voted!

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Carter Schonwald
<carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
> dont forget you can vote for more than one!
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi *,
>>
>> Everyone has been working hard getting things ready for the branch/RC
>> later this week - and that's really appreciated! As always, GHC
>> wouldn't be what it is without you.
>>
>> But it's the holidays - that's stressful for some, and real time
>> consuming for others. So to keep things light and a little
>> interesting, and if you have a minute as an experiment, I'd like to
>> ask you all something:
>>
>> What naming conventions should we use for GHC buildbots? We've been
>> adding more bots recently, and we've just gotten hold of some new
>> hardware this week.
>>
>> Currently, GHC buildbots don't have any reserved name or identifier,
>> or DNS entries. I'd like to change that - we mostly refer to them by
>> IP, but this is annoying A) to remember and B) to tell other people.
>> We'll likely begin to lease out these machines to developers so they
>> can test and debug - meaning they'll be mentioned more.
>>
>> I'd like to propose a theme for naming buildbots - this theme would be
>> used to populate DNS entries under the *.ghc.haskell.org domain.
>>
>> The question is: what naming convention do we use?
>>
>> So I created a poll for this. You can see that poll and vote for your
>> favorite options on Phabricator:
>>
>>   - https://phabricator.haskell.org/V3
>>
>> It's an approval vote rather than a plurality; so feel free to select
>> multiple choices. The winner with the most votes will get selected.
>>
>> Note: the selection of options is relatively random and pre-selected;
>> there is an upper limit on the number of choices - 10 max - so I
>> merely picked some categories I thought would work and be generic
>> enough.
>>
>> I imagine this vote will be open for about a week or so. I'd like it
>> if developers could vote on their favorites, or simply leave comments
>> on the vote for further suggestion - we could institute a vote with
>> better names.
>>
>> Thanks all - and be sure to have happy holidays.
>>
>> P.S I did not know RFC 1178 existed before today. Seems like there's
>> one for everything...
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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-- 
Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/