Should renaming come before the website launch?

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I'm going to putting on my PMC chair hat :tophat: to remind about process and try to get to something actionable. Our governance requires lazy consensus to make decisions. If a proposal doesn't have strong opposition, that proposal moves forward.

So with that in mind, here's what I'm seeing across the discussion:

  • On splitting, there is strong opposition and weak at best support.
  • On website launching, there is consensus on the website launching soon.
  • On naming confusion, there is consensus that the names are very confusing.
  • On sequencing, there is consensus that naming shouldn't block the website.

Here's what I propose:

  1. The folks who are concerned about confusion commit to helping clean up the information architecture and language and positioning to minimize the confusion. @tomsmyth are you up for facilitating this effort? And I'm guessing @martijnr, @aurdipas, @Ukang_a_Dickson, @ln, @adammichaelwood will help.

  2. We lock in a launch date of whatever is on staging. Close of business on June 15th seems as good of a date as any, but I think the folks from the previous point should have a say on if this works for them. I think the more aggressive the timeline, the better.

  3. We start a new public topic to discuss how we go about naming, what process we use to decide on a final name, and a timeline. I think this should start now and that the PMC be public with the deliberations so we aren't forced into a last minute discussion like this one.

How does this proposal sound?

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