Talk:SRE/Infrastructure naming conventions

Future ideas

This can be a running list of ideas previously proposed. When we need a new list to choose, we can use this as a starting point. Usual criterial:

• No living persons
• No copyrighted material
• Ideally an easily referenced list we can copy to wikitech, and cycle through sequentially.

Suggestions:

• simple:List of elements (eqiad)
• w:List of proper names of stars (codfw)
• w:List of mountains
• w:List of sovereign states
• w:List of legendary swords
• w:List of dinosaur genera
• w:List of ghost towns in the United States
• (see w:Category:Lists of lists)

codfw naming discussion

This discussion is now closed.

Now closed, using w:List of proper names of stars with some disclaimers, see page. --RobH (talk) 16:42, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

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So what are we going to standardize our naming miscellaneous servers as on the new datacenter site? --RobH (talk) 22:32, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Suggestions:

• Asset Tag : Learn to look things up before you work on them (I know that no one else likes this idea) --RobH (talk) 22:32, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
• Crayola Crayon Colors : Chad suggests en:List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors
• Astronomy : Daniel suggests en:List_of_proper_names_of_stars

• +1 from: Giuseppe, Rob, Otto
• Maybe use rotating alphabetical in this list? A, B, C...A',B',C'. That way we don't have all names starting with A.

• e.g. Acamar, Baham, Canopus, ...Achernar, Beid, Capella, ...

• Mountain peaks (lots of names so we can cull down to a list of names not like exeminewisgdklgh :-P) -- ariel (talk) 07:21, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

• +1 (otto)

• en:Category:Lists_of_lists : Reedy jokes but this is a good link to find other lists, so I'm adding it. --RobH (talk) 18:56, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
• Nixon's enemies (but only if we don't need more than 20)
• en:List of sovereign states. matanya (talk) 13:12, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
• Legendary Swords --BBlack