After some pondering at PyCon, I decided on a new name for toppcloud: Silver Lining. I’ll credit a mysterious commenter "david" with the name idea. The command line is simply silver — silver update has a nice ring to it.
There’s a new site: cloudsilverlining.org; not notably different than the old site, just a new name. The product is self-hosting now, using a simple app that runs after every commit to regenerate the docs, and with a small extension to Silver Lining itself (to make it easier to host static files). Now that it has a real name I also gave it a real mailing list.
Silver Lining also has its first test. Not an impressive test, but a test. I’m hoping with a VM-based libcloud backend that a full integration test can run in a reasonable amount of time. Some unit tests would be possible, but so far most of the bugs have been interaction bugs so I think integration tests will have to pull most of the weight. (A continuous integration rig will be very useful; I am not sure if Silver Lining can self-host that, though it’d be nice/clever if it could.)
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If Mercurial can use ‘hg’ as the name for its binary, then silverlining should be able to use ‘ag’ :)
I have thought about that, but I’ve been too lazy to see if “ag” is already taken as a command-line name. (My standard would be: does anything in Debian use that command name? If not, then I’m okay using it.) OTOH I kind of like “silver” and it’s easy enough to type.
I believe it’s unused. At least ‘command-not-found’-augmented shell doesn’t suggest any packages. (checked on Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04)
The ag idea is kind of neat but tab complete for silver is ok. I guess ag will be nice for a command you use more, silver is more like fire a forget and then just silver update.
“The product is self-hosting now, using a simple app that runs after every commit to regenerate the docs” is that link supposed to go somewhere else? shouldn’t that be bbdocs?
Also an interesting feature of Bitbucket is that if you delete http://bitbucket.org/ianb/toppcloud/ it will ask you for a repository to redirect people to so you can get rid of that note on top.
Absolutely love the new name. Has a better ring to it. Long live the silver. :)
If you care about SEO, I would use “silver”. I doubt anyone searches on “ag” for silver.