🔊 Call for new *Name* for this project!

[bwplotka]

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Hi 👋🏽

We got bored with calling this project a "new engine". It gets confusing when compared to "old PromQL engine", which is still used in Prometheus and by us as a fallback.

We are looking for a new catchy name. Ideally, something around Thanos (Marvel, Gods?)

Feel free to comment on names and vote on them with emojis! 🤗

[saswatamcode]

Maybe "Vulcan"? 🙂

This is based on Volcano model! So roman god of volcanoes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(mythology)) and similar name reference in Xmen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(Marvel_Comics)).

Edit: some go project already exists with similar name https://github.com/vulkan-go/vulkan. noticed right after I posted

[fpetkovski]

Not sure, sounds a bit generic and we will evolve the model in the future :)

[danielmellado]

wouldn't we get sued by using Marvel(tm) names? If that's not the case we could think about 'Blaze' as per Ghost Rider (just please, please disregard the films!)

[saswatamcode]

wouldn't we get sued by using Marvel(tm) names?

Heh, IANAL! But there is also Thanos (I think cncf helped check legal stuff)? So could be fine! 🙂

[JoaoBraveCoding]

What do you think of Hermes? The fastest greek god responsible for delivering messages like PromQL delivers the answers to our questions ;)

[metalmatze]

I thought this was going to be merged into Thanos directly once it's a bit more stable. Overall, I think it's also fine to call it the "Thanos PromQL engine" really, which is what it is for now.