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Does bors stand for something? what does the ng stand for? (I wasn't able to find out while googling.)

• nicoburns 5y ago
  Historical context: https://github.com/graydon/bors https://github.com/graydon/bors
  • notriddle 5y ago
    The one thing it doesn't mention is that bors is named after a character from a short story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Masters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_the_Masters
• pxeger1 5y ago
  -ng is a suffix sometimes used for "reboots" of abandoned or poorly maintained software; I believe it stands for "next generation".
  • quinncom 5y ago
    Thanks, I assumed that's what it meant. It's not terribly common, but there are a few packages using this naming convention: aircrack-ng, bwm-ng, crosstool-ng, libcap-ng, lincity-ng, minizip-ng, proxychains-ng, raxml-ng, recon-ng, stress-ng, zlib-ng, macfusion-ng, shadowsocksx-ng