Thank you Robert, I would prefer the community to vote on the new name (and possibly the starting number too). Best, Angelos On 06/30/2015 08:47 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:
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Hi,
On 06/16/2015 05:47 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Oh no, not another lengthy thread.... I am afraid it is going to be, but hopefully we can stick to the topic and only focus on the name.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the discussion, we mostly stayed on track and thus it makes it not too difficult for me to try and pull things together. I think we have lots of ideas and it is time to move from discussions and proposal to action and come to a decision. This is a summary, thus not ever aspect or all proposals will be mentioned explicitly ;)
In general it appears that the majority of those participating in the discussion is in agreement that the new release should follow
openSUSE
Additionally it appears that we agree that
should not change from release to release, thus creating a consistent naming scheme for this releases matching the idea with Tumbleweed openSUSE Tumbleweed
openSUSE Now of course the tougher part is
and . Lets start with . To stick with the "green" and "plant" theme we had proposed as Oak, Fir,
, with some latin thrown in I would summarize the associations one would go for with the choice of tree name as follows:
- - stable, strong, longevity
- From this bunch Oak appeared to have the most positive responses.
A play on words and also playing on duality of two releases was the Rock & Roll naming, i.e.
openSUSE Roll
(this would be for Tumbleweed) openSUSE Rock (this would be the new release) This also had positive responses, although there appeared to be the underlying concern that Tumbleweed would need to be re-named as well and Tumbleweed has become a pretty recognized name.
As a third theme a reference to motion was introduced as
openSUSE Leap
turns out that Leap also made a nice acronym.
I would say that these themes received the most discussion. We had a number of other suggestions with replies. If the name you suggested is not listed explicitly in this summary, sorry.
On the
topic it appears that we all agree that the starting version is more or less an arbitrary choice. Most proposals did contain a . in the version which was most often related to the SLE service packs that provide the underlying sources. Thus it would be x.1
for a release based on SP1 sources, then .2 and so on with X incrementing when a completely new source base is available, such as SLE 13 in the future. With X being arbitrary 42, as the project name in OBS and having historical reference in quirkiness in openSUSE appears to have found acceptance. Although starting at 1 is of course just as feasible or even at 12.
My gut feel is that people were slightly leaning more toward 42 vs. 1 or 12.
Now we need to look at the timing and how we come up with the final name .
As a release is targeted for the not too distant future and a milestone is close it would be great to have the milestone released with the final name. The board has been approach to facilitate a quick decision about the name.
The board is generally open to have a community vote on the name, with a restricted list based on the summary above. The other option would be for the board to make the name decision. If there is a vote it would have to be a restricted timescale vote due to the timing with a voting period of about 1 week (7 days). Later complaints about "I had no time it was too short" would be considered as bikeshedding.
Given that we had both options voiced in the discussions, vote or board decision, can those that have participated in the naming discussion please reply briefly with your preference. Keep in mind the voting period will be short and we'd have to be done by mid July.
Later, Robert
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