[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

[Martin Graesslin]

Hi all,

thanks to Martin for providing the pointer. Please everyone keep both lists in 
the CC. Replying to the thread makes it really difficult otherwise.

That's why I am not replying to any mail know.

I just want to add a few notes to the "code name" topic. First of all I think 
that any comparison to Ubuntu and MacOS does not matter. Whether they are 
successful or not cannot be reduced to the name at all. Also I want to point 
out that during our discussions we hardly scratched the topic of those 
communities. In the case of Ubuntu it was only in the negative. I remember 
that we:
* considered the name as too difficult (it's always an English word at least I 
had never heard before and my English is not that bad ;-)
* considered it as a problem in discussions with externals. E.g. upstream-
downstream communication is broken when referring to the code name
* they use multiple code names and sometimes it's referred to as the adjective 
and sometimes the complete name

I cannot remember that we discussed the Mac case. But I brought up the topic 
of code names and I got the inspiration from Eclipse which uses a moon name 
scheme. Which I find quite neat given that it needs a moon to get an eclipse.

Whether or not to use the code name in external communication I do not want to 
comment on, but I want to point out that we need a code name for our internal 
communication as the date scheme doesn't work for internal communication. The 
release might get delayed to another month and that could make things difficult. 
In that thinking the code name might also be useful during announcements of 
beta releases which are targeting the more informed people anyway.

The initial idea I gave for a code name pattern was using famous persons of 
the field of Physics. E.g.
* Plasma Cooper
* Plasma Hofstadter

The thought here is that Plasma already uses many words from physics in it's 
internal naming. E.g. Plasmoid, Corona, Containment, etc. So I thought that 
would be nice in the scheme. As said I got the inspiration from Eclipse.

The argument against that scheme was that it's too geeky and e.g. a "Plasma 
Einstein" would reference complexity and not an easy to use. If we consider to 
not use the code name in the external communication it would be possible to 
use a more geeky scheme again which is fun for us to use with. Looking at 
other projects which do that they seem to have lots of fun with it (hello 
Beefy Miracle (worst name ever)).

Cheers
Martin
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