Re: Plasma Next Naming

Aleix Pol <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Marco Calignano
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Why do we have to start with A? I guess we can (at least for the first
> release name) find the name of the fish that better represent the
> characteristic of Plasma 2 . Like a fish that is fast and pretty to look
> at, or maybe rare but wanted because is good.
> All other release can go in alphabetical order or not, why do we have to,
> if we also have the version year and month that tells us the chronology?
> Only because Kubuntu does that? I think it is limiting, I suggest to stick
> with a marine name but forget the alphabetical order, or at least the
> starting point being A.
>
> Cheers
> Marco
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Ivan Čukić <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > "KDE releases the January Update to the October 2014 release of Plasma"
>> > "October 2014, january update"
>>
>> This is a mouthful, and even more, quite confusing.
>>
>> While I like the month/year idea (duh:)), this is kinda breaking the aims
>> we previously defined.
>>
>> Cheerio,
>> Ivan
>>
>>
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Using alphabetical order is useful to be able to compare two release names
and be able to know which one is older and more or less how far apart.

I guess that starting with a said letter can be a constraint, but then I
don't have numbers but there are probably hundreds of fish starting with A.

Aleix


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