[Qgis-developer] Release plans for QGIS 1.6

Mon Oct 18 04:19:35 EDT 2010

New Zealand "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipuk
akapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" was also not bad... ;) 

(TRANSLATION: “The brow of the hill where Tamatea, with the bony knees,
slid and climbed mountains. The great traveler sat and played on the
flute to his beloved.”) 

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 07:44 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
> 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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