السلام عليكم،
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:45:30AM +0200, fadi al-katout wrote:
> I just had an Idea regardless the version number we can name every version
> with a name from the Islamic history (like ubuntu they name every version
> with an animal name)...
>
> names would be Cordoba, Taj-Mahal, Bader, Teebah, Ohod... etc
> what do you think?
---end quoted text---
That idea is very nice indeed. Yet the matter of release codename &
version number has some complexity:
1] debian/changelog entry: it is in the format <package> <version> <distro
release name>
In Debian <distro release name> is either experimental, unstable,
testing or stable.
While in Ubuntu you got: hardy,intrepid,jaunty,...
I prefer to follow the Ubuntu naming for debian/changelog since our
distro is Ubuntu based, the reason is not to break things that we
still do not know about.
2] A Ubuntu developer pointed to me that we should be modifying
/etc/lsb-release for our distro:
13:37 >asac< AnAnt: do you change /etc/lsb-release or is there some other way
to identify your distro at runtime?
13:38 <AnAnt> no, I don't change /etc/lsb-release
13:38 <AnAnt> except for the default artwork & installation, I don't think
there's another way to identify distro at runtime
13:39 <asac> k
13:39 <asac> i think you should adjust lsb-release and file bugs if that causes
issues
13:40 <asac> you should be able to use a different CODENAME at least
13:40 <asac> e.g. jaunty-me
13:41 <AnAnt> what issues do you mean?
13:41 <asac> i would file bugs if i knew about issues
13:41 <asac> not sure. maybe some software relies on some value in there
13:41 <asac> but i hope not
13:41 <asac> rely==if its changed it breaks
3] As for version numbering, we can do a (hijri year.month) scheme, but
for the time being, and for reasons similar to those above, I prefer
to stick to Ubuntu's numbering scheme (gregorian year.month) at
least for now.
* Regarding the points mentioned above, it would be useful that
someone would check how other Ubuntu-based distros. has handled it
(such as christian edition and linux Mint).
* Btw, as far as I know the shrine of Taj Mahal has nothing to do with
Islam.
* I noticed on LinuxAC that some people there are very fond of Mint,
as far as I understand from a colleague the ppl at Mint by default
installs codecs and software that Ubuntu do not install by default.
It would be useful to see what they've done and get ideas.
* Similarly I suggest that we work closely with the guys in Ojuba
distro (we already have a person in common, bro AlSadi), since both
distros. have almost similar targets.
* For the artwork we must decide on codename for next 'jaunty based'
release, and that decision must be made as soon as possible.
Brother Fadi: I'm ready to receive your artwork to start packaging
it :)
* I have an idea to further split each artwork (gdm, themes) package
into several target packages to minimize size. For example we got 3
GDM themes so far (not to mention the one Fadi has done), if we
install all those themes by the default, we will be taking a lot of
space. So what I am thinking about, is that the gdm themes package
for example would have several target packages, like:
sabily-gdm-themes, sabily-<jaunty>-gdm-themes,
sabily-hardy-gdm-themes.
<jaunty> should be replaced with our code name for next release,
insh'Allah.
Where sabily-gdm-themes would depend on the GDM theme that we would
want to install by default (that would be sabily-<jaunty>-gdm-themes
for the upcoming release).
--
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
Digital design engineer
GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ subkeys.pgp.net)
GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27
_______________________________________________
Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team
Post to : [email protected]
Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team
More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
