> But I can't see what's wrong with codenames. It's not just a "tradition", > it's standard practice in most fields of endeavour. You slap a name on > a project, and everyone knows what they're talking about. Unlike numbers, > names are memorable and unambiguous (when well-chosen).
AFAICT codenames are common before a project is released. They're much less common afterwards. > You don't have to memorize all of Debian's codenames in order, do you? I regularly have to figure out which of Buster/Bookworm/Bullseye/... is stable/testing/oldstable, and I must admit that I tend to forget and end up having to look it up. Stefan