[Qgis-developer] Release plans for QGIS 1.6

Sun Oct 17 04:37:02 EDT 2010

Hi

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Leong <loldog2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about hill names as release names?
> Hills is better than mountains because mountains is always too well
> known and probably been used by others.
> Moreover, their shape can be used to differentiate releases.
>
> One example: Bohol
>

Any nice pics to go with your suggestion? I quite like the idea since
philosophically each release is another hill we have climbed and put
behind us :-)

Lets keep the discussion on-list ok?

Regards

Tim

> On 10/17/10, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>> 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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