On Tuesday 16 June 2015 18:22:41 Robert Schweikert wrote:
I also believe that such a naming scheme will help us in the forming of a marketing campaign built around "The builders choice" tag line proposed at oSC15.
At oSC15 you presented the slogan as "the makers choice". While this might be close, exact words do matter in marketing. I'm not sure the proposed tag line should be part of the naming discussion, especially given this fuzziness. I also haven't seen much uptake on it, and for me personally it doesn't resonate. I think we do have a pretty clear vision for Tumbleweed. And an openSUSE distribution based on SLES also is a pretty clear vision. This should be enough to find a good name.
Thus, the name for the first release would be something like this
openSUSE Oak 42
Then add .1, .2 etc as the base changes with SLE service pack releases and when SLE 13 becomes the base it turns into
openSUSE Solar 43
AS I said, no strong preference yet on the middle part ;)
I like the scheme of having a separating middle name and Oak actually is one
of the nicest proposals I have seen so far. I would not change it over time,
though and reflect progress in the version number. So the middle name would
reflect the nature of the release and the version what, well, version it is.
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Cornelius Schumacher