[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 14 de gener de 2014, a les 21:07:57, Martin Graesslin va escriure:
> 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"

Do we need to mention the month the update is out? What about

"KDE releases the First/Second/Third Update to the October 2014 release of 
Plasma"

?

> 
> For bugzilla an internal version number is used anyway.
> 
> Cheers
> Martin