Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2014, 09.23:06 schrieb Martin Graesslin: > Hi all,
Morning Martin Very good summary. Thx! > thanks to Martin for providing the pointer. Please everyone keep both lists > in the CC. Replying to the thread makes it really difficult otherwise. > > That's why I am not replying to any mail know. > > I just want to add a few notes to the "code name" topic. First of all I > think that any comparison to Ubuntu and MacOS does not matter. Whether > they are successful or not cannot be reduced to the name at all. Also I > want to point out that during our discussions we hardly scratched the > topic of those communities. In the case of Ubuntu it was only in the > negative. I remember that we: > * considered the name as too difficult (it's always an English word at > least I had never heard before and my English is not that bad ;-) > * considered it as a problem in discussions with externals. E.g. upstream- > downstream communication is broken when referring to the code name > * they use multiple code names and sometimes it's referred to as the > adjective and sometimes the complete name > > I cannot remember that we discussed the Mac case. But I brought up the > topic of code names and I got the inspiration from Eclipse which uses a > moon name scheme. Which I find quite neat given that it needs a moon to > get an eclipse. > > Whether or not to use the code name in external communication I do not want > to comment on, but I want to point out that we need a code name for our > internal communication as the date scheme doesn't work for internal > communication. The release might get delayed to another month and that > could make things difficult. In that thinking the code name might also be > useful during announcements of beta releases which are targeting the more > informed people anyway. > > The initial idea I gave for a code name pattern was using famous persons of > the field of Physics. E.g. > * Plasma Cooper > * Plasma Hofstadter > > The thought here is that Plasma already uses many words from physics in > it's internal naming. E.g. Plasmoid, Corona, Containment, etc. So I > thought that would be nice in the scheme. As said I got the inspiration > from Eclipse. > > The argument against that scheme was that it's too geeky and e.g. a "Plasma > Einstein" would reference complexity and not an easy to use. If we consider > to not use the code name in the external communication it would be > possible to use a more geeky scheme again which is fun for us to use with. > Looking at other projects which do that they seem to have lots of fun with > it (hello Beefy Miracle (worst name ever)). Big +1 to this idea and the internal code name. Together with the date release name for the public it sounds quite reasonable now. Thx Mario _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel