Number it however... personally I'd like to see some (better) relation maintained between the openSUSE version numbers and the SLE version numbers - so maybe better coordination with the SLE PMs would be in order. Internally, I'd like to just make the codenames more obvious. How many people know the current release (officially 11.4) is codenamed 'Celadon' ? The long history of using green shades/objects is neutral and unique. Lets stick with what works. - James Mason 'bear454' On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> wrote:
We had this week a discussion on IRC on how to name the next release and I took the action item to do a poll on connect.opensuse.org now to help us solve the naming of openSUSE distribution releases.
openSUSE does not have a major and minor numbering, even if it seems so. There is right now no difference in any way between what we would do for openSUSE 11.4 or 12.0 - and no sense to speak about openSUSE 11 or openSUSE 11 family. We also have no process on how to name the next release (when to increase which parts of the number).
Here are some options, if I miss some, please tell me and I will then soon setup a poll. I'm listening the next version we would use as well as how the following would be called as an example. Remember we have releases every 8 months, so the next releases are: November 2011, July 2012, March 2013, November 2013, July 2014, March 2015.
Options: 1. "old school": The same we do right now but let's decide when to change the right number: we count it always until 3. Next release is 12.0. Following releases: 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.0 2. "Fedora style": Just integers. Next release is: 12 Following release: 13, 14, 15 3. "Mandriva style": YYYY.counter (4 digit year, counter starts a 0) Next release is: 2011.1 Following releases: 2012.0, 2013.0, 2013.1, 2014.0, 2015.1 4. "Ubuntu style": YY.MM (2 digit year, 2 digit month) Next release is: 11.11 Following releases: 12.07, 13.03, 13.11, 14.07, 15.03 5. "Ubuntu style variation": YYYY-MM (4 digit year, 2 digit month) Next release is: 2011-11 Following releases are: 2012-07, 2013-03, 2013-11, 2014-07, 2015-03 6. "octal": Coolo came up with calling the next release "o 12" and then proposed to go octal (so 012). We decided to start with 012 even if that 10 in decimal. Next release is: 012 Following releases: 013, 014, 015, 016, 017, 020 7. "Seasons": "Season YYYY" since March is in spring, July in summer, and November is in autumn. Next release is: Autumn 2011 Following releases: Summer 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Summer 2014
Anything else I should add to the list above?
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