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 wrote:

dont forget you can vote for more than one!

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:

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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/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

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