Hi Harald,
Let me put it the other way around: Wouldn't you
also feel weird if we
suddenly started a "FreeCalypso2" project?
Poor analogy: FC is a family of loosely related projects like Osmocom
(see footnote), not a single specific project like SIMtrace. I am not
claiming an "Osmocom2" project, am I?
Or a "Osmocom FCDEV4B board"
Saying "Osmocom FCxxx" would be a self-contradiction, but if you were
to design a quadband Calypso board, you would have every right to call
it something like "Osmocom CalypsoDev4B". The 3B at the end of FCDEV3B
stands for triband, and I put it in the name back in 2015 because it
was an explicit step backward from my original plan of aiming directly
for a quadband Leonardo+ re-creation.
Please stop at the
very least using the "SIMtrace plus a number" naming scheme, or consider
to stop using the SIMtrace name altogether. UICCtrace? CardTrace?
Would it be OK with you if I call my project FreeCalypso SIMsniff in
formal naming contexts and simply SIMsniff in casual conversation with
Vintage Mobile Phone community members wondering why phone model ABC
mysteriously refuses to accept SIM card model XYZ? In formal naming
contexts the full names of the two projects would be Osmocom SIMtrace
vs FreeCalypso SIMsniff - it should be obvious that they are distinct,
but the similarity will also make it clear that they aim for the same
utility niche and that one was probably created in response to perceived
shortcomings of the other, which is factual truth.
Under this proposal the two current binaries named simtrace3-sniff-rx
and simtrace3-sniff-dec would become simsniff-rx and simsniff-dec,
respectively, and the Hg repository will be renamed from simtrace-ice
to fc-sim-sniff.
Please confirm if my rename proposal is acceptable to you or not -
renames are obviously disruptive, hence I will only make the rename
once the new name is approved by all parties. I will also pause the
design and production of my next-planned sniffer pod board until this
naming agreement is reached, to avoid producing PCBs with the wrong
name on the silk screen.
Please also note that my alternative SIM-ME protocol tracer project
reuses existing SIMtrace FPC cables, the ones which you already offer
separately in your webshop - and one could regard these physical SIM
socket FPC adapters as the most important part of SIMtrace...
M~
Footnote: FreeCalypso began life in 2013 as an off-shoot of then-existing
free-falling remains of Openmoko community, and it is my understanding
that Osmocom is somewhat of a genealogical derivative of Openmoko too,
at least in terms of key people involved. By this logic, Osmocom and
FreeCalypso should be seen as siblings, with Osmocom as the big brother
and FC as the little sister.