[Qgis-developer] Release plans for QGIS 1.6

[Tim Sutton]

Hi



On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
> 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)
>

Sorry in retrospect my original email was probably unclear. It was my
intention that we use *real* (hence photographable) place names, but
obscure ones that a) have some geographical interest and b) are
unlikely to ever have been used by someone as a trademark. Having a
theme to the place names would be fine (making them really obscure and
interesting was kind of my idea for a theme, but another theme would
be fine too).

Using well known places e.g. Moscow as Maxim suggests will lead to
similar conflicts as using planetary moons.

Regards

Tim


> 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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