On 03/13/2011 09:53 AM, Helen South wrote:
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:34 PM, 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.
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I strongly oppose any name-based system, as for many distributions I find their naming choices to be contrived and often irritating. (Particularly Mint's cutesy girl's names). Scientific names might seem like a good idea to those of us with an interest in those things, but won't reasonate with users who are more into literature. And why use the name of a philosopher if the distribution doesn't actively embody something of that person's philosophy? It's just a meaningless code then.
Obviously Star Wars and other movies are out. We already have enough trouble encouragin casual contributors to be careful of branding and legal matters.
A simple numbering system would be fine. As a user, finding information on my current release is easy "opensuse 11.3" in a search string usually yeilds relevant results.
Keep it short, clear and simple to type. Try not to introduce extra punctuation. It would be preferable if it wasn't a commonly used date format.
best,
Helen
I love that logical common sense . Kiss methodology : keep it simple & stupid :-) For the jump from 11 to 12, my only suggestion is that will mark one of the major change. Well our main sponsor at the next release time will not be Novell but Attachmate. That can motivate the 12.0 jump, then keep it just number. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org