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#namingThingsIsHard

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I'm working on a new project which will be using Protocol Buffers for messaging between two systems. One of the message operations will be a ping/pong heartbeat, so that the two systems can know that the other system is operational.

In Protocol Buffers language, the ping message will be named PingRequest. What should the name of the pong message be?

Seems like at #fdroid we started to tackle a problem which I personally also encountered, but never found a good solution in my head: the distinction between F-Droid (the repository of FOSS apps) and F-Droid (the client for repositories of android apps). See gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issu (thanks @uniqx for bringing it up)

It basically the #NamingThingsIsHard problem, you always have in technology

GitLabF-Droids repo could use a name (#469) · Issues · F-Droid / admin · GitLabF-Droids central repository and the F-Droid client app are very distinct things, yet we refer to them under the same name. This makes it very hard to explain...