Hello,

As you may have noticed, we still haven't set any official stable release and 
are using ugly numbering to tell about our releases :). As we will switch to 
Debian Squeeze for the release after (2011-08), I think this is the opportunity 
to set our first official stable release (which would then be 2011-05) since 
nearly all softwares will change of version number in the release after.

The constraint for us is to provide the necessary updates of this stable 
version until a new stable version is out, supposing that awful bugs are found 
in the future. However this support will not exceed 9 to 12 months since Debian 
Lenny will not be supported upstream longer than this. Moreover we should 
publish a new official stable release based on Squeeze before Lenny's end of 
life (2011-11 if not 2011-08 in my plans). Note that this will also have small 
consequences on our website: all the download pages need to be deeply revised.

So the question is now what name for our first stable release?

My idea for the future is to use the travels of our characters around the world 
to set the name of our stable releases. For example Moscow-Beijing, 
Caracas-Rio, Tunis-Abidjan, Paris-Bucarest (no allusion to the bad stories of 
the last summer between France and Romania of course ;) ), or we may use region 
names instead of towns. The problem is that we have no story right now on our 
CD… So no travel to be named :(.

NB: if you've never heard about our plans for CD graphic design, the idea is to 
beautify our CD with draws of our characters living stories in various regions 
of the world, to make children discover our world.

As a result, for our first stable release, I propose to use a geographical name 
related to the far history of our earth: Gondwana 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana). Shortly this is one of the very first 
super-continents that has existed on earth, from which derived all the south 
hemisphere continents plus India and the Arabic peninsula. I like this name 
because this really shows that this is only the beginning of a long story ;).

Please tell me your feelings and if alternative ideas are arising.

Cheers,
JM.

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