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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi all


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Otto Dassau <dassau at gbd-consult.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for me the idea with the hackfest locations is fine. So the next one could
> be Valmiera and then Brighton etc.
>
>
Yes I think that was the idea - perhaps you can ask one of the hosts for a
GISically suitable place to use?

Regards

Tim


> 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.
>
>
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