Am Freitag, 26. Juni 2015, 02:31:19 schrieb Sam M.:
i don't like "Leap". It's just tacky to me. Just my opinion, but I don't feel like it describes any openSUSE release well. Hop, skip, jump, leap..and fall...it just sounds kind of ridiculous to me. Oak is better, but that's still not very creative. It's too simple and has been used for way too many things. I feel like we're picking the word first, then trying to make it meet the criteria. How about the reverse?
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Jay
wrote: Am Freitag, 26. Juni 2015, 09:19:48 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
On 25.06.2015 21:05, Jay wrote:
Therefore, my suggestion would be
openSUSE Leap
like in "leap forward", "quantum leap" or "...but ...giant leap for mankind" (or at least for a chameleon, that is ;)
Following (service-) releases might be named "openSUSE Leap 1.1", "Leap 2" etc. Each release a leap.
Hi,
I really like your suggestion. It's generic enough not to be seen as an inside joke (like many other suggestions) and still has something.
Greetings, Stephan
Happy to hear that!
What came to my mind a little later is that it would also set the release nicely and logically apart from the "rolling" release.
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Personal preferences are one thing. And I would welcome better solutions. But what's tacky about the word "leap"? "Leap" is no more tacky than "Oak", "Tumbleweed" or "keyboard". Neil Armstrong's "A small step for a man...but a giant leap for mankind" was one of the most ingenious lines someone ever came up with. It definitely wasn't tacky. It was "sticky" because it's still in people's minds. In marketing, that's a positive. But what about Ubuntu Leap, Debian Leap or Mint Leap? Would that sound tacky to you? Not to me. I would think "Sounds interesting." Because for me a leap stands for a decisive, dynamic and big move forward. Significant progress, so to speak. OK, we may fall after leaping. More often than not, we manage not to do so. But if, it's mostly our own fault. So if you call something "Leap" and then deliver something wimpy, you better prepare for a hard landing. BTW: From a documentary about Australian wildlife I learned that leaping is the most efficient way to move. Who would have thought that? Rainer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org