Yes, the codename is great, and thanks for the other news. All seems very good.
Keep up the good work. Best regards. --alienus Le 16/08/2013 21:13, Alfredo Hernández a écrit : > +1 for Isis, it feels completely right for elementaryOS. > > On 16 Aug 2013 21:09, "Daniel Foré" <dan...@elementaryos.org > <mailto:dan...@elementaryos.org>> wrote: > > Hey dudes (and hopefully a few dudettes these days), > > First of all, congratulations to all of you on 100k+ downloads in > the first week. That is freaking killer. We're getting rave reviews > and (despite bug #1 being closed) we keep hearing from tons of > people that are first-time Linux users coming from Windows and Mac > OS. If you haven't been in contact with this positive energy yet, I > encourage you to hit up youtube for an ego boost. Now down to business! > > I'm writing to announce the codename of the next elementary release: > "Wanking Wallaby" > > Jk. What is this, Ubuntu? > > I'm leaning strongly towards "Isis" for this one. It's short (2 > syllables), should be generally pretty easy to pronounce, etc. Isis > is the egyptian mother god of the throne, "friend of slaves, > sinners, artisans, and the downtrodden". You can read up more about > her here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis > > Munchor says I should go full Hitler and not allow any arguments, > but if you think the name totally sucks you can definitely say that. > If not, let's go with it! (And even if so, we'll probably still go > with it!) > > Also, I think in general most of us think it would be the best idea > to release Isis (see, I'm already going with it) as closely as > possible to Ubuntu 14.04. We have a lot to prove about our ability > to provide updates in a timely manner and we're getting some > negative feedback from developers/nerds about our 12.04 base. So > let's address that and make sure that elementary is the best open > platform for both users and developers (and I guess nerds too). > > Cody is currently working on updating Congrego to spit out some > super bleeding edge Saucy-based builds. If any of you are already on > Saucy, you know how broken Pantheon currently is. Indicators and > Plugs are huge problems that we need to address. We're considering > moving both of these into lib peas plugins for Wingpanel and > Switchboard (respectively). Any feedback on that plan is very welcome. > > In general, the first priority for Isis is going to be updating all > of our apps to compile/run with the latest libraries. You should > know that Midori with the latest webkitGTK is amazing. I'm working > on porting eGtk and it's going pretty swell. You should also know > that all the fancy libaccounts stuff is now available for someone to > start playing with so we can get sweet online integration. I believe > that Clutter with the touch-related bits is also available so that > is also very exciting for those of use that have a multi-touch > trackpad available. > > Anyways, let's get rolling on this cycle. We have 8 months to become > even more awesome. > > For the greater glorification of our Holy Mother Isis, > > Daniel Foré > > elementaryos.org <http://elementaryos.org> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp