[โ€“] 1 point 1 month ago

In terms of bad OSS project names, I feel like one of the worst is RawTherapee's fork, called Another RawTherapee, or "ART". No search engine can find it, because search ignores capitalization and it just thinks you're searching for art (as a common English noun). So when you look up "how to do x in ART" it thinks you're searching for regular art tutorials, and when you look up "how to do x in Another RawTherapee", it answers with the non-fork version of Rawtherapee because indexing rules make that come up first, but the UI in the non-fork version is totally different because that's the entire point of the fork, so the tutorial does not apply. In any case, this naming scheme is bound to give you a good headache when you need to look up anything.

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