[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming - Take 2

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Monday 27 January 2014 14:37:03 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've processed the discussion in the previous thread, we discussed it a bit
> in today's Plasma Monday hangout and here is a reiteration of the naming
> proposal. Please please /always/ keep plasma-devel in CC, if not, I'll
> hunt you down at Akademy and give you a disapproving look.
> 
> Alright, here it is:
> 
>  * The press/promo name of the workspace and close friends release will be
> "Plasma" with the "by KDE" touch, it should never appear as "KDE Plasma"
> again in our articles/blogs, nor just "KDE" when referring to the workspace
> * Versioning will be the date, eg. "Plasma 2014.06" (please refer to the
> previous thread for details on "why the date and not "5" and/or "2").
> Updates to those releases will be in form of "2nd update to Plasma
> 2014.06". The minor version also needs to be appended to the date, mainly
> for packagers, so we advise "2014.06-2". Exact date scheme is yet to be
> determined, comments on that welcome

I recall seeing -x often as distro-package-versions, so 2014.06.2 might be 
better. Then the fourth packaging of 2014.06.2 will be 2014.06.2-4.

>  * The marine theme will be dropped, we recognize there were too many
> objections and the feeling was rather negative towards that

Thank you for valuing consensus so much. I would like to ask everybody who 
discusses in this thread to show the same respect.

>  * Inside Plasma team, we'll start referring to the next version simply as
> "Plasma Next". This will always be the "next major version to be released".
> We encourage everyone to start using "Plasma Next", we don't want this to
> be inside-thing only

Hmmm, it makes sense as temporary solution until we have a release date (the 
role Plasma 2 is fulfilling atm) but I'm not sure if it doesn't just add 
unneeded clutter to our message. Once we know there will be a plasma 2014.06, 
we can just call it that, right?

> So that's the new iteration summed up, next week I'll collect the comments
> again and hopefully we'll have a consensus. Also please keep the discussion
> constructive and positive, if possible :)
> 
> Cheers
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