[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Tuesday 14 January 2014 20:18:17 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 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"
> * "Plasma by KDE" (don't use "KDE Plasma", but rather "by KDE")
> * "KDE Releases Plasma Angelfish"
> 
> A release could go along with an illustration of said animal to make it
> more engaging.
> 
> (*1) we chose from a lot of options, and find marine animals quite nice for
> the following reasons:
> 
> - Many options
> - Animals are easy to relate to for non-technical users
> - There are many choices, and they can be connected to different
>   characteristics (think of swordfish for speediness, for example)
> - The names often bear some meaning without knowing the exact animal in
>   question
> - It's rather easy to express concepts like organic, elegance, while being
>   playful and colorful
> 
> Some example that I've found possibly suitable after a bit of research:
> Angelfish (example http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Angelfish , eloquent and colorful
> ), Barracuda ( http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Barracuda ; fast and mean ), Clownfish
> ( http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Clownfish ; small but fierce ), etc. As you can
> see, there's quite the variety.
> 
> Feedback to this proposal is very welcome, but please keep in mind that we
> would like to move on with this question. It's highly subjective to
> bike-shedding, and a decision is better than no decision.

Agreed. There's quite some arbitrary/depending on taste/etc in there but 
there is little value in arguing about such details. If the Plasma team is on 
board with this you have my vote. It's a well thought out plan and fits in 
our general direction (separation of the different 'products').


Hugs,
/J

> Cheers,
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/attachments/20140115/664dc6a8/attachment.sig>