[Qgis-user] Call for release name suggestions 2015

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Mats,

On Tue, 01. Sep 2015 at 17:06:23 +0200, Mats Elfström wrote:
> Once, Qgis versions were named after planetary moons. We probably ran
> out of those, at least those known to the public.

Nope, there are probably plenty left.  But we stopped using them because there
was a trademark claim on some of the moons we used by a company that already
used it for their software product.

> Place names can be biased, like: now it's time for a latin american name and
> so on.

We already had a latin american name: Copiapo.


> May I suggest the periodic table of elements as base for the naming instead.
> By cleverly using the groups one could even indicate major/minor version
> changes.

Not sure if that's safer than moons.


Jürgen

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