In some Irish family and place names Kill means boy (Gilroy, Kilroy, MacGillivray, etc. E.g. Irish Gaelic Mac Giolla Ruaidh 'son of the redhaired lad', similar to the name of the Scottish dance tune An Gillie Ruach, The Redhaired Boy). So "Killjoy" can be thought of as "fun for children", entirely appropriately for the XO.
On 10/27/07, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 14. Schedule: The upcoming releases have been renamed and re-purposed: > > > > Oct. 26: "Trial-3" (Build 622) are the bits being loaded for mass > > production. This was completed this week. > > > > Nov. 16: "Reload" are bits that could possibly be loaded before > > shipping laptops to individuals. We will hand pick blocking bug fixes > > only if we need to. > > > > Dec. 07: "Killjoy" (V1.0, previously referred to as FRS or First > > Deployment) is a release based on the "Joyride" builds. This will > > include bug fixes/minor features that are in Joyride today; and we are > > actively moving some trac items to this release based on what we know > > about in the next week. Feature freeze for this is next week; code > > freeze the week after. > > > > Q1 2008: "Future Release" (V1.1) is the release after Killjoy. Not > > well defined. Right now it is where we moved all the features that > > didn't make it into Killjoy. > > > > (See https://dev.laptop.org/roadmap for more info.) > > > > As we do the triage for these builds, we'd very much appreciate > > community feedback as to what you think is important. Feel free to > > send email to Walter Bender, Kim Quirk, or Jim Gettys in regard to > > priorities. > > Not really important, but I cringe every time I read it - can we > rename "Killjoy" to something more positively sounding? > > - Bert - > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin Earth Treasury: End Poverty at a Profit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Earth_Treasury Sustainable MBA student Presidio School of Management _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar