ROS 2 B Turtle Naming Brainstorming

dirk-thomas · 2018-01-25T00:26:32.872Z

With the ROS 2 Ardent Apalone release shipped, it’s time to start brainstorming the full name for the next ROS 2 release B Turtle.

As past names have shown, there are no rules to this process.

Please provide suggestions and comments.

Past ROS 2 name and codename:

Ardent apalone - ardent

Past ROS 1 names and codenames:

Boxturtle - boxturtle
C Turtle - cturtle
Diamondback - diamondback
Electric Emys - electric
Fuerte - fuerte
Groovy Galapagos - groovy
Hydro Medusa - hydro
Indigo Igloo - indigo
Jade Turtle - jade
Kinetic Kame - kinetic
Lunar Loggerhead - lunar
Melodic Morenia - melodic

A few links to websites enumerating turtles starting with B:

http://www.chelonia.org/byspecies.htm#B
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Turtle_genera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Prehistoric_turtle_genera

So be creative!

– Your friendly ROS naming committee

allenh1 · 2018-01-25T01:30:08.894Z

How about bashful batagur?

akio · 2018-01-25T02:09:52.125Z

I’d like to propose…

Bog turtle
Blue Box (turtle)
Bionic Bottlenose

gbiggs · 2018-01-25T02:45:53.015Z

Bog turtle is too close to Boxturtle.

+1 for Bionic Bottlenose.

Pyo · 2018-01-25T03:13:30.949Z

B-Boy Turtle
: Happy to imagine a tortoise character enjoying breakdancing.

Bertie Turtle
: Fastest turtle in the world (https://youtu.be/i6nYWsXnl6M)

Bulldozer Turtle
: Supper Power Turtle

How about B-Boy Turtle?

davecrawley · 2018-01-25T03:20:54.635Z

I suggest that names of extinct or endangered animals should be reserved for software that we think we are unlikely to support long in to the future so that would put batagur out. Bog is a colloquialism for toilet in England - so perhaps lets avoid that one.

So as ROS is clearly the future of robotics I’d go +1 for Bionic Bottlenose and further propose

bountiful brer

Who couldn’t love brer turtle

surfertas · 2018-01-25T05:20:23.687Z

Breezy Batagur - breezy

What does breezy mean?

pleasantly windy.
appearing relaxed, informal, and cheerily brisk.

Thus a Breezy Batagur is pleasant, relaxed, and cheerily brisk!

clalancette · 2018-01-25T13:54:02.402Z

While I like Bionic, I don’t think it is a good idea to use it for ROS2 since the next Ubuntu release is going to be Bionic. I think that will lead to a lot of confusion about whether someone is talking about the ROS2 release or the Ubuntu release.

kenjisato · 2018-01-25T16:40:42.812Z

bowser

en.wikipedia.org

Bowser (character)

Bowser (クッパ, Kuppa, "Koopa"), or King Koopa, is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Nintendo's Mario franchise. In Japan, the character bears the title of Daimaō (大魔王, Great Demon King). In the U.S., the character was first referred to as "Bowser, King of the Koopas" and "The sorcerer king" in the instruction manual. Bowser is the leader of the turtle-like Koopa race, and has been the archenemy of Mario since his first appearance, in the 1985 video game Super Mario Bros. His ultim...

Drew_Brown · 2018-01-25T16:44:35.975Z

I was all-in on bionic bottlenose until clalancette pointed out the Ubuntu name.

I like the meaning behind biomimetic (bottlenose || batagur), might be a mouthfull though.

Christian_Mock · 2018-01-25T17:52:14.520Z

Hi community,

Bebop Bulldozer

References:

The Spruce Pets

53 Perfect Names for Your Pet Turtle or Tortoise

Browse through a list of unique, cultural, and silly names for turtles and tortoises and find the perfect one for your pet!

Comic Vine

Bebop (Character) - Comic Vine

Always walking with Rocksteady following the orders of Shredder and Krang.

Cheers
Chrimo

airballking · 2018-01-25T18:04:31.447Z

I am not sure about any of the nouns. But regarding the adjective, how can this not be “brilliant”?

ROS Brilliant is cool, right?

kdhansen · 2018-01-25T18:58:06.211Z

+1 for breezy - I really like the connotation. Breezy Bowser, though…

A little letter rhymes with Bowser: Bouncy Bowser, Browsing Bowser.

scpeters · 2018-01-25T19:34:53.341Z

big is a short adjective

Martin_Guenther · 2018-01-25T21:10:52.315Z

“Breezy” has the same problem as “bionic”: it’s the name of an Ubuntu version, so it’ll mess up your Google results.

Breezy Badger was the first Ubuntu version I’ve been running. And I’m sure ROS2 won’t support it.

davecrawley · 2018-01-25T16:40:25.000Z

OK how about:

Boisterous bottlenose
or
Bodacious bottlenose

Mehdi_Tlili · 2018-01-31T16:48:32.239Z

Would it infringe any copyrights if we call it
Baby Browser

160px-Baby_Bowser_YI

dirk-thomas · 2018-01-31T18:51:04.685Z

Thank you for all the ideas so far

To summarize the current proposals (removing / collapsing duplicates):

Bashful Batagur
B-Boy Turtle
Bertie Turtle
Bulldozer Turtle
Bountiful Brer
Bebop Bulldozer
Baby|Bouncy|Browsing Bowser
Brilliant …

I think we will like not considered any of the following ones (for the mentioned reason):

Bionic
- collides with Ubuntu Bionic Beaver
Breezy
- collides with Ubuntu Breezy Badger
Blue Box
- similar to ROS Box Turtle
Bog Turtle
- similar to ROS Box Turtle
Biomimetic
- complexity of spelling considering international community
Bodacious | Boisterous
- complexity of spelling considering international community
Big
- close to the BIG-i robot

If anyone has more ideas please post them soonish. We plan to decide on the name within a week. Thanks!

ruffsl · 2018-02-01T02:21:59.528Z

I looked up pairs of b turtles names and code names that formed an alliteration and a sudo rhyme.
Here are some more ideas:

Batagur
- Burner Batagur
- Barnburner Batagur - Ha…
Bruņurupucis (Latvian for Turtle)
- Couldn’t think of anything, not sure how to pronounce.
Breshkë (Albanian for Turtle)
- Breakpoint Breshke - I like this, sounds a little meta
- Breazy Breshke
- Breakaway Breshke
- Brewing Breshke - fermenting ROS2?
Bouliachelys
- Burly Bouliachelys - I like burly as a code name
- Brotherly Bouliachelys

jeremyroy · 2018-02-01T02:30:23.263Z

What about “Ballistic Batagur”