rename the package

[simonpcouch]

pal unfortunately needs to be renamed. Some contenders right now:

• bud
• birb (silly slang for "bird", could probably preserve the hex with this one)

Tossed around cobber and fren but not digging some of the assocations there.

Some that ditch the sentience vibe (but that would also require some rephrasing of language throughout the package):

• boop (fully silly, just what I say to myself sometimes when I trigger a pal)
• send (as in "send it"/"go for it"🏂)

[simonpcouch]

From Davis:

• butler
• oracle
• chores

[simonpcouch]

Digging the idea of chores:

• "Select a chore."
• Can use the same hex, where the checklist is a list of chores.
• Does away with the suggestion of sentience/anthropomorphization in the main analogy for what the package does.
• All good with available::available() except flagged as a bad word. win-builder didn't trigger any issues for that, though.

I think this does make for a difficult translation of what's currently called a "role." "chore" seems to describe both "pal" and "role" quite well, and I never quite felt that "role" was right—maybe what are pals and roles just become the same thing?

[salim-b]

Building upon the "chores" conception:

minions

> available::available("minions", browse = F)
── minions ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Name valid: ✔
Available on CRAN: ✔ 
Available on Bioconductor: ✔
Available on GitHub:  ✔ 
Abbreviations: http://www.abbreviations.com/minions
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/minions
Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/minions
Sentiment:???

Each LLM assistant (formerly "pal") would be a "minion".

... or maybe even name the pkg potatoes? 😜