On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:29:52AM -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> Come on... after Wombat for 0.7?!  Noodly isn't bad, even if no one
> gets it (how many people know what Vega is?), but why not nounify it
> and make it Noodle?  That'd be more in line with previous versions. 
> Noodl[y|e] has connotations of brain, of thinking.  I like that. :-)
> 
> Though I do like Omni better, snobbish overtones and all.  (After all,
> I daresay most of us are using Arch because we *do* think it's better.
>  If all we do to "show off" is to release a name with *possible*
> overtones, I think we're doing much better than some other distros,
> names withheld.)

Heh.  You guys think too much.  Be careful with that.

Don't worry too much about reading profound volumes into the tagname of
one of our releases.  I just short-listed Omni because I thought it was
a cool word/prefix.  It doesn't have to lend an arrogant tone to the
release any more than Noodle would lend a silly tone to it.

I defy anybody to divine a pattern from our previous seven tagnames.
The randomness should be enough to convince you all that the tagname
serves only as a symbolic reference to the release number.  We don't
have to make a statement with it.


- J

ps: I think Zenith would be a good one too.  But if we're reading
meanings into the names, perhaps Zenith should be saved for 1.0.


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