[all][tc] U Cycle Naming Poll

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Tue Aug 13 17:09:31 UTC 2019


On 8/13/19 6:46 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Sean Mooney wrote:
>> On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 07:57 -0700, James E. Blair wrote:
>>> Since we take particular pride in our community participation, the fact
>>> that we have not been able or willing to do this correctly reflects very
>>> poorly on us.  I would rather that we not do this at all than do it
>>> badly, so I think this should be the last release with a name.  I've
>>> proposed that change here:
>>>
>>>   https://review.opendev.org/675788
>>
>> not to takethis out of context but it is rather long thread so i have sniped
>> the bit i wanted to comment on.
>>
>> i thnik not nameing release would be problemeatic on two fronts.
>> one without a common comunity name i think codename or other conventint names
>> are going to crop up as many have been refering to the U release as the unicorn
>> release just to avoid the  confusion between "U" and "you" when speak about the release
>> untill we have an offical name. if we had no offical names i think we woudl keep using
>> those placeholders at least on irc or in person. (granted we would not use them for code
>> or docs)
>>
>> that is a minor thing but the more distributive issue i see is that nova's U release
>> will be 21.0.0? and neutorns U release will be 16.0.0? without a name to refer to the
>> set of compatiable project for a given version we woudl only have the letter and form a marketing
>> perspective and even from development perspective i think that will be problematic.
>>
>> we could just have the V release but i think it loses something in clarity.
> 
> So... I agree the naming process is creating a lot of problems (the
> reason I decided a long time ago to stop handling it myself, the moment
> it stopped being a fun exercise). But I still think we need a way to
> refer to a given series, and we have lots of tooling that is based on
> the fact that it's alpha-ordered.

And we need to change this anyhow once we go to 26 (Z is end of
alphabet). So, we have it a few releases earlier now ;)
> 
> Ideally we'd have a way to name releases that removes the subjectivity
> and polling parts, which seems to be the painful part. Just have some
> objective way of ranking a limited number of options for trademark
> analysis, and be done with it.

Or use numbers, years,...

Andreas
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