[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.
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> It's a protest, but a very internal one to GDAL.
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> What this thread suggests in putting this issue on the splash screen for
> 5 months.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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"
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> 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-
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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-
> psc at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>>
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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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