Name: Dockter, Docktor, Dokta, Tudock, Dave?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

No implementation file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reviewing the 12-comment naming discussion and the current command name described in the issue; done requires a decided replacement name and an agreed scope for updating user-facing references.

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Description

bug

The current name of this tool is Dockter. It's a portmanteau of doctor (either the medical or PhD kind) and Docker (the container platform) because it's aim is to make it easier for researchers (either the medical or PhD kind 🙂 ) to create Docker containers.

But there are five issues with the name:

  • 🗣️ Hard to distinguish in verbal communications: "Was that Docker or Dockter?"
  • ✍️ Ambiguity in spelling: "Dockter" or "Docktor"?
  • 🖥️ Confusion at the command line: dockter build . is very similar docker build . and looking for that extra t can consume an extra brain cycle or two to figure out which tool you are using.
  • 💻 Autocomplete at the command line: many people use autocomplete in the shell and having the first four letters the same makes this less useful.

As the famous joke says (well actually a riff on the original joke):

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.
Leon Bambrick

Please add your thoughts and suggestions in comments below 🙏. If you like someone's suggested name please 👍 it

Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
10
Avg merge
3h 28m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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