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

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

[apawlik]

Many thanks to everyone for your comments and feedback. And the winner is: dockter ! I am closing this issue for now but thanks to @TimVanMourik we are planning to add dockter who command (see #55)

[giorgiosironi]

I agree a problem with dockter is not being specific enough to be unique in searches: It also appears to be in use in some other projects as a pun.