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msp3k
November 2nd, 2010, 03:41 PM
Hello fellow Ubuntineers,

I find myself in the position of managing multiple separate software repositories as part of my job.

This got me to thinking: What would be a good collective noun for a group of Linux repositories? You know, like "a murder of crows" or "an army of ants". A friend once coined the collective noun for Unix sysadmins as "A clue of sysadmins." :)

So I'm looking for people to complete this sentence:
A ____ of repositories.

Nightstrike2009
November 2nd, 2010, 03:44 PM
"Repos" seems to be the normal term that i've experienced anyhow, I dunno "A Matrix of repositories?" perhaps? :-)

cpmman
November 2nd, 2010, 03:47 PM
Wealth

madhi19
November 2nd, 2010, 03:57 PM
A big mess of a repositories! :P

slackthumbz
November 2nd, 2010, 05:07 PM
Flagon.

undecim
November 2nd, 2010, 05:09 PM
Rally

Can't go wrong with alliteration

MisterGaribaldi
November 2nd, 2010, 05:59 PM
Flagon.

I like this. I like this a lot.

CraigPaleo
November 2nd, 2010, 06:21 PM
A flocking hurd of repos.

bouncingwilf
November 2nd, 2010, 06:31 PM
How about a "Bewilderment" of hackers?

Bouncingwilf

koenn
November 2nd, 2010, 06:43 PM
"farm" is often used for a loose collection of similar items

a server farm, a wiki farm, a link farm ...

Spice Weasel
November 2nd, 2010, 07:01 PM
"farm" is often used for a loose collection of similar items

a server farm, a wiki farm, a link farm ...

Computer bought the farm?

koenn
November 2nd, 2010, 07:05 PM
Sysadmin bought the farm?
:)
ftfy

Cuddles McKitten
November 2nd, 2010, 07:31 PM
Chinese speakers are experts on this: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chinese_classifier

Maybe someone fluent in Mandarin can help us out?

grief -l
November 2nd, 2010, 10:04 PM
A rack of repos

t.rei
November 2nd, 2010, 10:07 PM
what about a good old fashioned "bunch" of repositories?

alexan
November 2nd, 2010, 10:11 PM
a Multiverse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse) of...

HoKaze
November 2nd, 2010, 10:28 PM
An array[] of repositories :P

Mr. Picklesworth
November 2nd, 2010, 10:33 PM
A repository of repositories, of course.

koenn
November 2nd, 2010, 10:56 PM
a pile

a heap

a truckload

a yardful

wilee-nilee
November 2nd, 2010, 11:01 PM
group

koenn
November 2nd, 2010, 11:07 PM
a hive

a collective

malspa
November 2nd, 2010, 11:15 PM
what about a good old fashioned "bunch" of repositories?


a pile

a heap

a truckload

a yardful

A s***load.

bluelamp999
November 2nd, 2010, 11:20 PM
A silo of repositories.

A cache of repositories.

More poetically...

A gleaning of repositories.

A cummerbund of repositories.

A reliquary of repositories.

cammin
November 2nd, 2010, 11:29 PM
A list.

nerdopolis
November 2nd, 2010, 11:38 PM
A mesh of repositories?

A Swarm of repositories?

saulgoode
November 3rd, 2010, 01:09 AM
A repertoire.

phrostbyte
November 3rd, 2010, 01:17 AM
pizza

Old_Grey_Wolf
November 3rd, 2010, 01:22 AM
I came across this page of collective nouns. http://www.inspirationline.com/Brainteaser/gaggle.htm

forrestcupp
November 3rd, 2010, 03:08 AM
A s***load.

He said repositories, not suppositories. ;)

malspa
November 4th, 2010, 12:28 AM
a s***load.


he said repositories, not suppositories. ;)

lol!

Windows Nerd
November 4th, 2010, 02:07 AM
A mess of repositories.

Not that some repositories are a mess, but some are notorious for being so.

earthpigg
November 4th, 2010, 02:27 AM
a collection of repositories
a series of repositories


slightly off topic, i just discovered the term 'blade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_blade)' in the context of 'five blades form the server'

CraigPaleo
November 4th, 2010, 05:53 PM
lol! Wouldn't that be a buttload of suppositories?