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Geez, what's with those weird project names? For a second I expected/hoped this would be some cool hack storing data in actual seaweed. (You know like pingfs..)

Geez, what's with those weird project names? For a second I expected/hoped this would be some cool hack storing data in actual seaweed. (You know like pingfs..) No it's not! It's some S3 k8s ... thing. Nothing wrong with that but come on, choose a better name! And no I'm not particularly fond of the namr CockroachDB either.

heipei 6y ago
I'd rather have weird names that are unique than the incredible name overload from generic / cool product names that are used from flagship products all the way down to 5-line npm packages.
corobo 6y ago
I'm on the other side of this. Do a Google search before naming your thing! Make it as silly and unique as possible, I'll be able to search for solutions later
- taxcoder 6y ago
  >Make it as silly and unique as possible, I'll be able to search for solutions later Silly? Not my preference. Unique? Absolutely. Something made up or completely out of context is likely to be a whole lot easier to search for.
bsg75 6y ago
On the other side of this, SeaweedFS appears to be largely implemented in Go, an useless keyword to search on. "Golang" works much better, but sometimes results in a pedantic correction "The language is Go not Golang", to which I can only reply that the project is hosted on golang.org. Weird a.k.a. unique names are useful. CockroachDB: Cockroaches are hard to kill. The vendor wants to imply this is also the case for their platform.
chrislusf 6y ago
haha. Actually SeaweedFS started with a worse name. But some users warned me of how bad the name was in Japanese language. So I added "Sea" in front of the old name.
- dragonsh 6y ago
  Thanks for good work with seaweedfs, I shared it with the community as was working on using it personally in our startup to replace minio. It will be nice if you can integrate it with pyfilesystem [1]. It’s a small library providing unified file interface in python for local or cloud storage without fuse. It can already support seaweedfs using S3 API, it will be nicer to just directly have a driver for seaweedfs removing S3 translations. I like dried crispy seaweed wafers, they do produce umami flavours, so it is a good name, reminding them. The quality of software isn’t based on name but by what it does, so don’t bother about people talking about name. [1] https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/en/latest/ https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/en/latest/
  - chrislusf 6y ago
    Thanks! I am not good at Python at all and would not able to add Python specific support. However, SeaweedFS has gRPC APIs that you can use to do all file operations.

heipei 6y ago

I'd rather have weird names that are unique than the incredible name overload from generic / cool product names that are used from flagship products all the way down to 5-line npm packages.

corobo 6y ago

I'm on the other side of this. Do a Google search before naming your thing! Make it as silly and unique as possible, I'll be able to search for solutions later

taxcoder 6y ago
>Make it as silly and unique as possible, I'll be able to search for solutions later Silly? Not my preference. Unique? Absolutely. Something made up or completely out of context is likely to be a whole lot easier to search for.

bsg75 6y ago

On the other side of this, SeaweedFS appears to be largely implemented in Go, an useless keyword to search on. "Golang" works much better, but sometimes results in a pedantic correction "The language is Go not Golang", to which I can only reply that the project is hosted on golang.org. Weird a.k.a. unique names are useful. CockroachDB: Cockroaches are hard to kill. The vendor wants to imply this is also the case for their platform.

chrislusf 6y ago

haha. Actually SeaweedFS started with a worse name. But some users warned me of how bad the name was in Japanese language. So I added "Sea" in front of the old name.

dragonsh 6y ago
Thanks for good work with seaweedfs, I shared it with the community as was working on using it personally in our startup to replace minio. It will be nice if you can integrate it with pyfilesystem [1]. It’s a small library providing unified file interface in python for local or cloud storage without fuse. It can already support seaweedfs using S3 API, it will be nicer to just directly have a driver for seaweedfs removing S3 translations. I like dried crispy seaweed wafers, they do produce umami flavours, so it is a good name, reminding them. The quality of software isn’t based on name but by what it does, so don’t bother about people talking about name. [1] https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/en/latest/ https://docs.pyfilesystem.org/en/latest/
- chrislusf 6y ago
  Thanks! I am not good at Python at all and would not able to add Python specific support. However, SeaweedFS has gRPC APIs that you can use to do all file operations.