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On 13/08/19 12:34 PM, James E. Blair wrote:
> Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> That's a good point.
> 
> Maybe we could just number them?  V would be "OpenStack Release 22".
> 
> Or we could refer to them by date, as we used to, but without attempting
> to use dates as actual version numbers.

I propose that once we wrap back to A, the next series should be named 
exclusively after words that generically describe a geographic feature 
(Park/Quay/Road/Street/Train/University &c.) since those should be less 
fraught and seem to be everyone's favourites anyway :P