Name the Floci state artifact

[hectorvent]

We are building portable, shareable state artifacts for your local cloud: export the state of a running Floci instance to a single file, commit it, hand it to a teammate, or load it in CI to start every run from the same known state. The feature is called Floci Pods. The artifact it produces needs a name, and that name will end up in file extensions, CLI commands, and CI configs typed by a lot of people for a long time.

So rather than pick alone, I would rather the people who will type it pick it.

The candidates:

• Puffs: floccus is the popcorn-shaped cloud; a puff is one piece of it. Fits "light, fluffy, and always free."
• Tufts: the actual meteorological term; floccus clouds are described as tufts. The nerdiest option.
• Seeds: the clearest everyday meaning; a state artifact seeds an environment, the way you already seed a database.
• Plumes: a plume of cloud, and a bird's plume. One foot in the sky, one in the Flock.
• Snapshots: the plain descriptive option. If you would rather have clarity than branding, this is your vote.

Two earlier candidates, "Drifts" and "Crates", were already considered and dropped.

If none of these work for you, comment with a write-in. Genuinely good write-ins will be taken seriously, and if one clearly wins the comments, I will re-run the final against the poll winner.

Poll closes July 31. The result ships in the Pods release and will be covered in State of the Flock #002.

[QAnders]

If I'd got to choose freely, I'd go with "Carbonite", or "CryoPods"... 😅

[ChrisLightfootWild]

Leaning into the floci name, simply something like .floci.state.