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

[Radim Blazek]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:39 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.

Some ideas from our discussion during breakfast here on HF in Vienna.
To get versions order into the code name, we could use the same
alphabetical schema as Android [1]. Brighton is the good starting
point. We will regularly return to Essen so we can use it later. That
means that the next HF location should start with "C".

Radim

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

> 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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