:) Still reading our list then despite your move ;). I hope you'll be ready in June to go on with the Squeeze migration and to compile ARM packages. Our continents have to live their lives!
JM. > 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
