[Qgis-psc] Release Name - Was: [Qgis-developer] Reminder: Freeze starts on 2014-01-24 (4 days)

[Otto Dassau]

Hi,

for me the idea with the hackfest locations is fine. So the next one could
be Valmiera and then Brighton etc.

Regards
Otto

Am Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:33:30 +0100
schrieb "Anita Graser" <anitagraser at gmx.at>:

> Hi,
> 
> When will we decide on the release name? Do we have any material to
> design the splash screen yet? If you have some material that might be
> suitable, please mail it to me.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Anita
> 
> 
> 
> Am 22.01.2014, 12:39 Uhr, schrieb Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > Well, we still have the version number .. and that is still THE
> > number for me anyway (and should always stay like that).
> > But the Codename was always a nice thing to have and to my experience
> > people tend to give a lot of things names (like naming their car), so
> > why not give a name to a new release.
> >
> > It also brings the benefit of showing respect for the HF host (or a
> > cartographer) and although you cannot order the releases by their
> > names you can always by their version numbers. We are not going to
> > skip one in favor of the other.
> >
> > And when I look at the wikipedia page [0] I see the Version number is
> > still listed before the "Codename".
> >
> > Maybe I am blind but I don't see a real problem with that. And people
> > out there have the choice how they want to call it (as long as they
> > are using it)
> >
> > kind regards
> > Werner
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 22. Jan 2014 at 11:42:38 +0100, Denis Rouzaud wrote:
> >>> On 22. 01. 14 11:37, Radim Blazek wrote:
> >>>> Cannot it be done in a different way, maybe even more explicitly, for
> >>>> example a bottom bar on splash screen telling place/institution.
> >>
> >>> Even though I would keep the names, we'll have troubles anyway: 2 HF a
> >>> yeat with 3 releases, we won't be able to thank all the places...
> >>
> >> Huh?   2 HF and 3 releases will help us catch up.  Even more: we're
> >> not doing
> >> Linuxhotel releases and Vienna twice.
> >>
> >> But I would also be fine if we'd just give it a monotonically increasing
> >> version number (like firefox for instance) and be done with it and
> >> drop the
> >> nameing hassle.