Martin Schlander wrote:
Mandag den 4. maj 2009 14:59:06 skrev Michael Loeffler:
As long as there is not a brilliant idea of changing the openSUSE versioning I don't see much positive things in doing so. Does the current versioning hurt somewhere (beside of "I don't like it")?
It hurts a bit.
While I'm not really sure about changing the numbering scheme I really like the colors idea. For example [1] provides a quite good list of colors to choose from. Using Pantone(c) color names could be a problem because of the legal issues. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors
Quite a lot of people tend to think that x.0 is less mature and has more new features than other releases. And they somehow expect x.1|2|3 to be merely boring updates or servicepacks for the x.0.
So a version numbering which shows more clearly that all releases are unique might be beneficial.
Do you think that keeping the numbering scheme and adding the code names (colors in our case) will send a good signal to people so they'd better understand that every release is truly unique ?
On the other hand we'd lose some of the great history and nostalgia associated with the current scheme.
Agreed. PS: Even though I'm advocating color names, I'd still like to see the wallpapers/branding in green tones (i.e. they would _not_ match the codename color). The green is our identification mark and we surely don't want to look like folks abusing LSD. :D -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org