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Change name to embrace other Arm platforms

Open ctrahey opened this issue 4 years ago • 5 comments

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ARM is growing! For myriad reasons, ARM is gaining traction beyond SBCs. For example, AWS Graviton instance types and the coming wave of publicly available ARM CPUs for servers. It seems to my eyes like more people are seeking multi-arch images, and I worry that the "raspberry" heritage in the name of this project will be interpreted as "not enterprise" or "not for Graviton". Is it reasonable to consider a name change (or fork+deprecate) of this project to acknowledge the broader footprint and non-Pi use-cases of ARM and multi-arch images?

ctrahey avatar Aug 14 '20 22:08 ctrahey

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@ctrahey

This is a good point and something we'll consider, happy to have a discussion in discord and throw out some ideas.

xunholy avatar Aug 14 '20 22:08 xunholy

If you rename the project to reflect that it's not just for Raspberry Pi, you might as well also change the "bernetes" part too, since these images could still be useful in other Docker / OCI systems.

stuartpb avatar Oct 11 '20 09:10 stuartpb

It's likely we'll move the multi-arch-images repo to the new org hyperarch here https://github.com/hyperarch. This will be specific for hosting images as such that are cross-compiled for multiple architecture types and follow the same pattern of deprecation once the upstream provide the functionality.

@stuartpb @ctrahey would love your thoughts.

xunholy avatar Nov 22 '20 21:11 xunholy

@xUnholy Yeah, I think that's a great name! Funny, I didn't even mention M1 in the original issue - momentum for ARM is looking really strong. Appreciate the work on this project!

ctrahey avatar Jan 23 '21 15:01 ctrahey