[saga-rg] Research Group / Working Groups

[Tom Goodale]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Andre Merzky wrote:

> I think the name SAGA-CORE-WG is misleading, as the strawman
> does not really define a Core API.  That role, defining the
> core, look and feel, and basic paradigms, would rather fit
> the target of the RG.

Definitely.

In the future the SAGA WGs will presumably be named according to the 
functional area they are producing an API for, e.g. SAGA-GridCPR-WG, but 
that would be unwieldy for this initial group, so I had to suggest 
something 8-)

> However, during yesterdays discussion we could not come up
> with a better name, really.  Just so you all have something
> to laugh at, I'll repeat some suggestions below.  Well, the
> point of this mail is: if you can think of a suitable group
> name, please speak up!
>
>  iSAGA       (very fashionable, for initial SAGA)

Perhaps SAGA-Init-WG ?

Or SAGA-Kickstart-WG, or SAGA-FLJST-WG (Files Logical-files Jobs Streams 
Tasks) ?

>  SAGA-PRIMER (obvious)

Sounds more like a group producing a programming primer.

>  SSAGA       (confusing, but stands for Super simple API...)

Too generic;  it suggests it is doing something super within SAGA, rather 
than 'just' being a group producing a set of APIs for a well defined set 
of funtional areas.

> My personal favourite for today is (cling on tight)
>
>  SAGA-WG
>
> Well, that might be confusing with SAGA-RG, but what the heck - it 
> describes what we do best I think...

I think it would be confusing, not so much with the RG, but more in 
that the name suggests it is producing the whole SAGA API, and not just a 
well defined set of APIs.

Cheers,

Tom