On Wednesday, June 10, 2015 03:59:48 PM Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 2015-06-10 15:30, Stephan Kulow wrote:
[2] The Name/Version I kind of expected that the version number would create the most mails, but I'm quite disappointed about the net result, because it didn't bring up any alternative IMO. openSUSE:42 is a working title and it's a good one
The problem was that you chose a _number_ for a _title_, which, I will argue, contributed significantly to the confusion, and rightfully so.
As others explained better than I could, 42 has some flair around it.
Did you never, in younger years, tell an insider joke, and then landed in the awkward situation that your listeners did not get it? 42 turned out to be one of them.
I don't think voting about such things has any relevance. In all honesty: if I don't feel comfortable with the name, a vote won't change that. And I don't feel comfortable with a continuation and 42.1 is the only alternative brought forward so far.
Because there is not really anything better. As each release is a successor to the prior, they make an ordered set no matter what they care called. People like strictly-monotonically increasing things (numbers, starting letters, etc.). Humanity has also tried random names, but they only make it as far as release codenames.
openSUSE:42 will be a separate code stream and it's purpose is different from openSUSE:Factory. While openSUSE:Factory is released every day and contains things close to upstream, in openSUSE:42 we develop a distribution optimized to last long on the user's computer.
openSUSE seems to be leaning onto E words: Evergreen, Essence/Essential (the new-released SLE base underneath "42"). We could use another E-word for what is "42" if that pleases.
A number has no emotional meaning attached and make no behavioral responses for marketing purposes. If you like the E-Word let's name it "openSUSE: Eclosion" = "openSUSE: Blooming or Hatch". Now the world love global words to brand. After all, in some way, it would be a new dawn for this project. "Eclosion" is spanish word for a radiant flourishing, blooming, hatching, incubating, dreaming up....It would be the first release with different code. Sure it will have time to brand it if that case matures to see reality. So far we draw it, the main issue is plenty of technical and resource challenges. And after all, why SUSE would release a commercial code? It does not make sense at all. Regards, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org