Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Klaus Hartnegg hartn...@uni-freiburg.de wrote: Nowhere on that page is a version number or a release date, so people not familar with cool have no idea how outdated this might be So let's strive to make better documentation.

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Klaus Hartnegg hartn...@uni-freiburg.de wrote: Just want to say that I really like this idea of naming releases after minor planets, such as Ceres. It's a way cool idea. +1 Cool yes, but useful? Numbers have the huge advantage that everybody knows their

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-07 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/07/2015 11:16 AM, Klaus Hartnegg wrote: Am 04.03.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Robert Storey robert.sto...@gmail.com: Just want to say that I really like this idea of naming releases after minor planets, such as Ceres. It's a way cool idea.

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-07 Thread hellekin
On 03/07/15 14:21, william moss wrote: Cool yes, but useful? Numbers have the huge advantage that everybody knows their order, which is quite important when referring to versions. *** Release *NAMES* never replaced version numbers. Hence Debian 8 Jessie and Devuan 1.0 Jessie. == hk -- _ _

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-06 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 05/03/2015 02:36, Ricardo Larrañaga a écrit : So, basically we will be using mithology for names. Ahead on the list it gets a little more variety, but initially is mostly gods and godess It could start with an offset, say Charon, the companion of Pluto. Not so fancy, but not a god

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-06 Thread Anto
On 06/03/15 16:07, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 05/03/2015 02:36, Ricardo Larrañaga a écrit : So, basically we will be using mithology for names. Ahead on the list it gets a little more variety, but initially is mostly gods and godess It could start with an offset, say Charon, the companion

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-05 Thread Gravis
This way it would be much easier to count which release it is, and it would serve as an indication that devuan has already it's own personality, and isn't only a debian's copy. that is a poor rationale for breaking a logical naming scheme. --Gravis On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:44 AM, P. T.

[Dng] release names

2015-03-04 Thread Robert Storey
Just want to say that I really like this idea of naming releases after minor planets, such as Ceres. It's a way cool idea. I nominate pseudo-planet Sedna for a future Devuan release. Not sure how many of these planets exist, but if we run out of planet names, there's always the many moons of the

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-04 Thread Gravis
Not sure how many of these planets exist, but if we run out of planet names, there's always the many moons of the solar system (165 by last count). And then there are the comets. Minor planets can be dwarf planets, asteroids, trojans, centaurs, Kuiper belt objects, and other trans-Neptunian

Re: [Dng] release names

2015-03-04 Thread Gravis
So, basically we will be using mithology for names. 1) spelling 2) basically, just series of letters but one might call that an oversimplification. they are the names of minor planets. --Gravis On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Ricardo Larrañaga ricardo.larran...@gmail.com wrote: So, basically