Re: Plasma Next Naming

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Martin Klapetek
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Aleix Pol <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> Wasn't one of the concerns (I think by Alex) that Kubuntu devs are always
> talking "raring" or "saucy" and we never know which version it is; so that
> we should always talk the version numbers instead (and even not knowing the
> fish name beforehand)? If people agreed on always using the date version
> when talking about a release, using random names would not be a problem I
> think.
>
> However using an alphabetical order seems just more practical because
> people will keep using fish names when communicating, so it would at least
> make our (as in developers) lives easier. *shrug*
>
> Cheers
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
>
>
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Indeed, then we discussed that ideally, these names would come from KDE
Promo, so they wouldn't ever be used internally; so more of a public
announcement thing.

Aleix


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