[Qgis-developer] Release plans for QGIS 1.6

[Alex Mandel]

I agree that real place names is a better idea. I could see lots of
Mythical/Fictitious names actually being claimed by people. I will also
point out that the Mozilla Foundation uses National Parks/Reserves in
the code naming of pre-release firefox branches and suggest that we
could do something with a greater cause as our release names:
Endangered Species, World Heritage Sites, Rivers, Mountain Peaks, etc..
(suggest your idea)

We could also de-emphasize the release name and use it amongst the
developer group to keep track of what's being worked on, ie the trunk
will have a name leading up to it's release and then switch names.

I also agree, to just avoid the issue as it's not worth our effort to fight.

Thanks,
Alex

On 10/16/2010 03:06 PM, Maxim Dubinin wrote:
> How about making release names geographic. QGIS 1.6 "Moscow" sounds
> good and easily memorizable.
> 
> Maxim
> 
> Вы писали 16 октября 2010 г., 14:07:10:
> 
> TS> Hi
> 
> TS> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 16. Oct 2010 at 01:42:54 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>>> We (the PSC) recently received a threat of legal action against our
>>>> use of the word 'Tethys' in the naming of the 1.5 release of QGIS.
>>>> It seems that the word Tethys is trademarked by a company in one country.
>>>> Although we feel their case is weak, we do not have the time, money or
>>>> inclination to engage in a legal battle over this.
>>>
>>> Does OSGeo have a position on this?  I thought the OSGeo umbrella was also
>>> covering legal support.
>>>
>>> Just curious - that would probably be a waste of time of resources anyway.
>>>
> 
> TS> Ok Frank covered that. And yeah we should pick our battles...
> 
>>>> This has a few implications:
>>>
>>>> - The PSC has agreed to stop using planetary moons as the names for
>>>> our releases, and embark on a new theme of using extremely obscure
>>>> place names (e.g. the mythical Tweebuffelsmeteenskootgeskietfontein in
>>>> South Africa).
>>>
>>> Do we need codenames at all?   Any name - obscure or not - could be a
>>> trademark.
>>>
>>>
> 
> TS> *sniff* lose the release names? That would be no fun....should we let
> TS> big corporations take away our fun? :-P
> 
> TS> But yeah theoretically we don't need them, though personally I'd like
> TS> to continue with them...
> 
> TS> Regards
> 
> TS> Tim
> 
>>> Jürgen
>>>
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