----- "Asiri Rathnayake" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Ecaterina Valica <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I think is a good idea to have code names for the releases, but I'm > not so > > sure about "cocktail names". > > > > +1 > > I'm also not sure if cocktail names are very catchy, may be we should > go for > a scheme that is commonly understood everywhere in the world (i > personally > don't know what different cocktails are out there). May be planets, > elements > of periodic table, different gems, etc. etc. If everybody can understand it, then it's not a good code name ;) More seriously, I think it does not matter if people understand it or not. Personally I don't know what a Warty Warthog is, but if it raises curiosity in me and makes me dig it, then I'll learn something and everybody wins :) For me the cocktail thing is a good scheme because it has a story behind it. Jerome. > > - Asiri > > > > > > The only other naming convention we have is skin names: > > > > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices#HUsingbirdnamesforSkins > > > > Also not so sure that should be decided just by the release manager > (there > > is quite a small list of people that do releases) > > > > Thanks, > > Caty > > > > > > > > > Le 11 août 2010 à 17:17, Jerome Velociter <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > > > > > > Hello friends, > > > > > > > > I would like to propose introducing the use of code names for > each > > > release cycle of XWiki (2.x, 3.x, etc.), using a agreed-on scheme > (a la > > > Ubuntu [1]). The main reason behind this proposal is that : > > > > > > > > A. it's groovy :) > > > > B. there is no B. > > > > > > > > As for the code name scheme, with regard to recent events > involving a > > > fair portion of the XWiki Development team [2], I would like to > propose > > the > > > use of cocktail names as code names. Some examples - for the sake > of > > > illustration : XWiki "Cuba Libre" 2.5, XWiki "White Russian" 2.6, > XWiki > > > "Bloody Mary" 3.0, etc. you name it! [3]. Virgin cocktails > tolerated :) > > > > > > > > The release manager for each cycle would have the honor to pick > up the > > > release code name. Isn't that an awesome incentive ? > > > > > > > > +1 for all that > > > > > > > > Jerome. > > > > > > > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames > > > > [2] > http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWiki+Seminar'10<http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWiki+Seminar%2710> > > <http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWiki+Seminar%2710> > > > > [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cocktails > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > devs mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > _______________________________________________ > > > devs mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
