Re: The name of Applications 4.14 + 1

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <3391959.ICdaQRb59t__45437.7132388347$1405623110$gmane$org@xps>
El Dijous, 17 de juliol de 2014, a les 10:25:05, Daniel Vrátil va escriure:
> On Thursday 17 of July 2014 01:19:45 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Hi all, please let's keep future discussion in kde-promo since i think
> > this
> > is more a promo related thing than anything.
> > 
> > A while ago we decided that 4.14 will be the last KDE 4 Applications
> > release and that after that we would switch (at least for a while) to
> > application releases where applications are either kdelibs4 based or KF5
> > based (on a tarball/repository level).
> > 
> > Now we need a name for that thing.
> > 
> >  * We can't call it 4.15 since the 4.x in there for everybody means based
> >  in
> > 
> > kdelibs4.x
> > 
> >  * We can't call it 5.x since the 5.x in there will make people think all
> > 
> > apps are KF5.x based
> > 
> >  * My suggestion is call it "KDE Applications $YEAR.$MONTH", i.e. if we
> >  keep
> > 
> > with the 4 month schedule next release would be "KDE Applications 14.12"
> > and next-next "KDE Applications 15.04". It has a small problem if we slip
> > the release from one month to another the name changes, but we just have
> > to
> > plan all the releases early in the release month so that even if it slips
> > it still falls inside the month.
> > 
> >  * Another possibility would be "KDE Applications 1", that doesn't have
> >  the
> > 
> > problem with the sliping release, but I have to say that I would feel
> > quite
> > weird calling our next applications release "KDE Applications 1" :D
> > 
> > Anyone has another suggestion?
> > 
> > Do we go with "KDE Applications $YEAR.$MONTH"?
> 
> Your suggestions seems to me like a potential problem for packages, since
> they would have to handle upgrade path 4.14 -> (20)14.x -> 5.x (unless you
> are suggesting to stick to YEAR.MONTH versioning for good, in that case
> please ignore me).


$YEAR.MONTH seems pretty good to me, so i'd just stick to it.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Dan
> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >   
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