[PLUG-TALK] Software Release Nomenclature

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 01:24:33PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> >
> >>And they're fun to devise; concocting hostname schemes is one of the
> >>longest-tenured perks of being a sysadmin.
> >
> > That's a perspective that would never have occurred to me.
> 
> Then we have a whole class of more-or-less whimsically named machines:
> 
> * locker (which succeeded attic) for backups
> * oz (frank, not wizard of) for embedded device control
> * grind for Java development
> * pane, porthole, skylight are (or were) our Windows servers


In small companies that's a great tradition. Where I work it's all
<DEVICE CODE><LOCATION CODE><Serial> boring boring.

for jamhome.us I chose host names reflecting where critters could live

apt
barn 
bivy
cabin
flat
hill (ant)
hive
nest

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