Proposal: Name change

[adamhub]

This project is inspiring and I love it! However, it's difficult to Google. Jujutsu clearly brings too many unrelated results, while JJ kinda brings up results. JJ-VCS is Googleable, but it's long to type out and say verbally. The name JJ/Jutustsu makes this project difficult to find which in turn means it's difficult to find media about (tutorials, reddit posts, etc.) and also difficult to tell people about verbally. A change of name to something clearly unique will give this project a stronger chance of thriving. Being hyper-google-able is the goal.

For example, putting two familiar words or morphemes together is one route: GoatNodes, KiloVite and so on. You would quickly achieve SEO dominance with those terms since nobody uses them. Those aren't name proposals, just examples.

[steveklabnik]

I personally call it jj at all times.

I'm not sure that the project is actively looking for a ton of attention right now, given that a lot of stuff is still under flux. That is, the relative obscurity is an advantage at the moment, not a problem. I'm not 100% sure what the actual stance on that is, though.

[ilyagr]

Not very seriously: JumpingJellyfish, JumbledJungle, JackalopeJam, JustJJ, JollyJay.

JayJustice, JesterJustice

JumpingJay, JugglingJay

[iofq]

maybe juj or tsu would be more google-able. juju is already taken by a Canonical tool

[adamhub]

I'm not sure that the project is actively looking for a ton of attention right now, given that a lot of stuff is still under flux. That is, the relative obscurity is an advantage at the moment, not a problem. I'm not 100% sure what the actual stance on that is, though.

I don't know the actual stance. My ask is for damage-control-branding so I can reference it to my team and clients. Right now I just can't. I have to mention it and then give them a link, and it stops there because they know they can't reference it to others. JJ is a neat idea with an un-google-able name. It's hard to reference a thing with it being reference-abel. Linux/Vim/Emacs/Git/Bitcoin googable. JJ brings up entertainers.

Love seeing the name ideas come through. Naming is hard.

[ccmtaylor]

like @steveklabnik, I call it jj in my head. Given that the new logo looks like two bluejays, maybe retconning the name as Jayjay would work? For me, Google only comes up with this, which doesn't seem too much of a conflict 🤷