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Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS
DuroSoft writes: Earlier this week an article ran about how Microsoft's multi-year refusal to rename its terabyte-scale Git extension "GVFS" (Git Virtual File System) had drawn the ire and dismay of the GNOME GVfs project (Gnome Virtual File System) which predates the Microsoft project by years. Thanks to Slashdot coverage and community pressure, Microsoft has now officially promised to rename GVFS to something else, and is asking the community for suggestions for a new name. Is this an official sign that MIcrosoft is finally listening to developers (albeit with a Slashdot-level of negative attention), or are they simply trying to appease the crowd while they are still in the news due to their acquisition of GitHub?
Slashdot doesn't have enough readers to cause a website to get slashdotted. I'm curious as to how Slashdot coverage could influence Microsoft to change anything.
Here's something the people in power need to realize, in my opinion...
Why do people vote for such inane names like, "Boaty McBoatFace" or the man of the year, "Hank, the Angry Drunken Dwarf"?
The collective people really don't generally want to be "stuck" with those names that they voted for, but rather, it's a test - is the voting system fair? Can the organization be trusted to honor the votes of the people? Overwhelmingly, the answer is No. These names get voted in because there is no trust that the results will be honored.
On an aside... I'm probably going to forever refer to the git file system as "McGitFS" ... at least internally.