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:
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.
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