On Tuesday 14 January 2014 20:18:17 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hey, > > Until now, we've been using "Plasma 2" as a working title for the next > version of Plasma. We never formalized this, and the last discussion we > had about this died out without producing a clear result. We've gone over > these points during the sprint, and discussed some details about it. > > Some things that came up that we think are important for a new name: > > - We don't want it to be too technical, it should be engaging to "normal > people" > - Version numbers seem confusing an not very expressive, these should > rather be a technical detail (for example to group bugzilla entries) > - We want something that can be related to its release date > - We don't want to see it tied to a single class of devices > > We came up with the following scheme, which we'd like to propose: > > * The upcoming release of the KDE Plasma Workspaces is called Plasma > * The version number used is Month (as name) + year > * Each release gets a codename based on a marine animal (*1), in > alphabetical order, one for each feature release > * The exact name should be decided by the promo team (we have domain > experts that can give input, *ahum*) > * "workspaces" should hardly be used at all, it's a technical term and > doesn't bear all that much meaning for users > > So, some examples how that's used: > > * "Please file a bug against Plasma June/2014" > * "Plasma by KDE" (don't use "KDE Plasma", but rather "by KDE") > * "KDE Releases Plasma Angelfish" > > A release could go along with an illustration of said animal to make it > more engaging. > > (*1) we chose from a lot of options, and find marine animals quite nice for > the following reasons: > > - Many options > - Animals are easy to relate to for non-technical users > - There are many choices, and they can be connected to different > characteristics (think of swordfish for speediness, for example) > - The names often bear some meaning without knowing the exact animal in > question > - It's rather easy to express concepts like organic, elegance, while being > playful and colorful > > Some example that I've found possibly suitable after a bit of research: > Angelfish (example http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Angelfish , eloquent and colorful > ), Barracuda ( http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Barracuda ; fast and mean ), Clownfish > ( http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Clownfish ; small but fierce ), etc. As you can > see, there's quite the variety. > > Feedback to this proposal is very welcome, but please keep in mind that we > would like to move on with this question. It's highly subjective to > bike-shedding, and a decision is better than no decision.
Agreed. There's quite some arbitrary/depending on taste/etc in there but there is little value in arguing about such details. If the Plasma team is on board with this you have my vote. It's a well thought out plan and fits in our general direction (separation of the different 'products'). Hugs, /J > Cheers,
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