[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

[Martin Graesslin]

On Tuesday 14 January 2014 20:34:15 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dimarts, 14 de gener de 2014, a les 20:18:17, Sebastian Kügler va 
escriure:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Until now, we've been using "Plasma 2" as a working title for the next
> > version of Plasma. We never formalized this, and the last discussion we
> > had
> > about this died out without producing a clear result. We've gone over
> > these
> > points during the sprint, and discussed some details about it.
> > 
> > Some things that came up that we think are important for a new name:
> > 
> > - We don't want it to be too technical, it should be engaging to "normal
> > 
> >   people"
> > 
> > - Version numbers seem confusing an not very expressive, these should
> > rather be a technical detail (for example to group bugzilla entries)
> > - We want something that can be related to its release date
> > - We don't want to see it tied to a single class of devices
> > 
> > We came up with the following scheme, which we'd like to propose:
> > 
> > * The upcoming release of the KDE Plasma Workspaces is called Plasma
> > * The version number used is Month (as name) + year
> > * Each release gets a codename based on a marine animal (*1), in
> > alphabetical order, one for each feature release
> > * The exact name should be decided by the promo team (we have domain
> > experts that can give input, *ahum*)
> > * "workspaces" should hardly be used at all, it's a technical term and
> > doesn't bear all that much meaning for users
> > 
> > So, some examples how that's used:
> > 
> > * "Please file a bug against Plasma June/2014"
> 
> I do like it, but how does this work with bugfix vs feature releases?
> 
> I.e. as a user may want to see if the new release i'm going to install is a
> bugfix release (i.e. i'm going from 4.12.0 to 4.12.1) or if it is a new
> feature release (i.e. i'm going from 4.12.0 to 4.13.0).
"KDE releases the January Update to the October 2014 release of Plasma"

For bugzilla an internal version number is used anyway.

Cheers
Martin
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