[Qgis-psc] Idea: rename 3.42 to "Denali"

Raymond Nijssen r.nijssen at terglobo.nl
Tue Feb 18 06:17:56 PST 2025


-1 (sorry)

As we are a "community effort", and political opinions are 
personal/individual, I'm not in favour of expressing political opinions 
through the QGIS software.

Raymond


On 2/18/25 13:56, Lior Kaplan via QGIS-PSC wrote:
> I think this would be a wrong decision on our part.
> 
> First, it's an internal American naming conflict.
> While we might not like the decision, it's his to make (as Obama did in 
> the opposite direction in 2015)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
> Denali%E2%80%93Mount_McKinley_naming_dispute <https://en.wikipedia.org/ 
> wiki/Denali%E2%80%93Mount_McKinley_naming_dispute>
> 
> GDAL refers to an international dispute. But notice GDAL's naming was 
> just mentioned on the release
> email to the dev mailing list, it's not part of the release notes, 
> change log or anything on GitHub.
> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2025-February/060253.html 
> <https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2025-February/060253.html>
> 
> It's a protest, but a very internal one to GDAL.
> 
> What this thread suggests in putting this issue on the splash screen for 
> 5 months.
> 
> The naming scheme we have so far makes sense for our community,
> encouraging the developer gathering and complementing on the effort with 
> release naming reward.
> 
> I think it's a beautiful mechanism, which we should not change so easily.
> 
> Kaplan
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> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM David Signer via QGIS-PSC <qgis- 
> psc at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
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>     And QGIS has some kind of relationship with Alaska, no? And also I
>     think this naming would be a statement representative of other such
>     cases.
> 
>     So yay for Denali.
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>     On Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 13:13 Luigi Pirelli via QGIS-PSC <qgis-
>     psc at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
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>         I'm not completely informed in all the geo name changes due to
>         forms of oppressions, and I agree with you that trump's
>         decision have the same (negative) value as that applied by putin
>         or whoever, IMHO in this case, just for opportunism reason, make
>         sense this action because that names had a great audience
>         making them useful to transmit a message as "do not change names
>         just because you want to without multilateral consensus"
> 
>         my 2c
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>         Luigi Pirelli
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>         On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 at 12:43, Michał Drożdż via QGIS-PSC <qgis-
>         psc at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
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>             In my opinion it is opening of Pandora Box.
>             Why not Pokrovsk, Bakhmut or Bucha?
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>             wt., 18 lut 2025 o 12:31 Giovanni Manghi via QGIS-PSC <qgis-
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>             napisał(a):
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>                     The motivation behind this is to protest against the
>                     political
>                     situation in the United States, and how the policies
>                     of this current
>                     US government are directly harming our community,
>                     users, and all
>                     future generations who would like to share and enjoy
>                     this planet.
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>                 agree!!!
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