[Qgis-developer] Release plans for QGIS 1.6

Mon Oct 18 01:44:09 EDT 2010

Hi

Ok I went with Giovanni's suggestion of Capiopo for this release - see
the new splash screen in trunk.

Regards

Tim

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Benoit de Cabissole
<benoit at exigesa.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 17/10/2010 10:37, Tim Sutton wrote:
>> 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 :-)
>
> Or characteristics contour lines of the hill (we are dealing with GIS
> after all)?
>
> My 2 cents
> Benoit
>
>> 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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