Hi Jim, Thanks for the comment and understood.
I will wait until we identify the person "doing the release job" before considering a code name. In the mean time I'll start gathering requirements and evaluating priorities on this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0 Thanks, Greg S > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:28:59 -0400 > From: Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Code name for 9.1.0 > To: "Jameson \"Chema\" Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected], Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > ?Absence of dissent does not mean agreement. It often means some people > are just tired of the topic and will find the topic frustrating to chime > in on; I know this to be true for some of us. > > I must say I'm tired of us changing our naming scheme again and again. > We've gone from build numbers, to ship.x, to update.x, to the current > numbering scheme. I'm not convinced that having a code name in addition > to a numbering scheme adds much, though I have little objection to the > particular scheme being proposed here. > > But I'd like to defer this discussion/decision until we've figured out > who will be doing the release job for 9.1.0; that person's opinion > should weigh more than most in the discussion. Hopefully we'll get this > settled on in the next week or two. > > Them that does, has the most say, in my book.... > - Jim > > > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:11 -0600, Jameson "Chema" Quinn wrote: >> Well, actually, the mango suggestion was made originally as a tree, >> not a fruit - as the tree Freire learned to read underneath. Obviously >> the concept of "learning under a tree" exists in many cultures around >> the world, and there are several trees that would work for this: >> >> apple (newton), bodhi/banyan/fig/pipal/Ashvastha (buddha), juniper >> (navajo), buttonwood (wall street), "blossoming >> pear" (african-american - from "their eyes were watching god"), >> mulberry (china/silk), baobab, thorn tree.... >> >> I definitely sympathize with the "general fruit" and "alphabetical is >> nice" threads here. Verbs are good too. And the above list, even if we >> managed to triple it, would still be a little too thin to make such >> wordplay easy. But even if we decide against a list like the above, I >> would still advocate for starting with mango, and then going >> alphabetical later (as Ubuntu did). The Freire story is a good one, >> and mango is such a fun word to say. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
