Hello Jean-Michel, Great idea for Gondwana.
Amicalement, GK Le 16/05/2011 15:05, [email protected] a écrit : > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Doudoulinux-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev > _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
