scikits-image or scikit-image?

[Andreas Mueller]

Hey Mathieu.
I agree that it is a bit awkward at the moment.
I remember that when we wanted to get the sklearn freenode channel, 
people asked "so is this an organization? and why are they called 
differently?".
As scikits-image already went through a rename, I'm not sure we should 
do it again.
I remember there was some discussion back then and I think the outcome 
was "well sklearn decided for scikit and skimage for scikits, that's
unfortunate but so be it".

Btw sorry for the "scikits-image core developer" on the bio. I think 
that is a bit exaggerated given what others did in the last release.
I wrote that after Stephan gave me commit rights and I was psyched ;)

Cheers,
Andy


Am 01.10.2012 08:56, schrieb Mathieu Blondel:
> Hello,
>
> I could not help but notice that you guys were using scikits-image as 
> project name, rather than scikit-image (without the "s" at the end of 
> "scikit").
>
> In scikit-learn, after a passionate discussion on the mailing-list, 
> "scikit-learn" as project and "sklearn" as package ("import sklearn") 
> emerged as the most popular naming convention.
>
> This may not seem like big deal but I think a little consistency would 
> be beneficial to both scikit-learn and scikit-image (have a look at 
> Andreas' bio at the end of this blog post 
> http://blog.kaggle.com/2012/09/26/impermium-andreas-blog/ ).
>
> So here it is: woud you be willing to transition to scikit-image? 
> (change the logo, buy the domain name, ...)
>
> Since scikit-learn and scikit-image are the two most popular scikits, 
> hopefully this would set the example and new scikits would follow the 
> same naming convention in the future.
>
> For scikit-learn, the transition went rather smoothly and now, most 
> people correctly call it "scikit-learn" (rather than scikits-learn or 
> scikits.learn).
>
> Thanks,
> Mathieu