I think it will be nice starting with drupal 4.5 to have not only numbers for each release but also a name. Most OSS projects do this, it is more "personal" and fun.

Regarding the naming schema, we can do something like the RedHat guys are doing, like this

So where should be start? And should only x.y version be named or should we name x.y.z as well?

We could go for

4.5 Mario (the best well known plumber after Dries)

4.5.1 Luigi (the other brother)

4.5.2 Princess (and yet another charcter)

4.6 Diana (well know princess)

4.6.1 Amalia (Dutch princess)

4.6.2 Sissi (well know princess and soda)

4.7 Coke (soda)

4.7.1 Cherry (soda and sign on slotmachines)

4.8 Bell

etc...



What do you think about this? It is not important, just fun!

Comments

adrinux’s picture

adrinux commented
Title: Name releases » Named releases

I'm not against the idea in principal, but I don't like those choices! Retro games I never played, a princess we get sick of hearing about here in the UK, a name associated with an American corporation...
If you can come up with something that has no political, copyright or other problems, and preferably has an obvious succession, then you'd get my vote.

On the other hand plain old numbers work pretty well for me, and there's no confusion that way, no need to be a drupal 'groupie' to understand what version we're talking about. How many non Apple users can re-arrange Tiger, Jaguar, Puma and Panther into the correct order?

I can see it has marketing potential though...

jonbob’s picture

jonbob commented

Names have value if we don't decide on version numbers or release dates in advance. Currently Drupal uses time boxes for development cycles, so whatever is in HEAD at the time becomes the release version. We also fix on a release number pretty well on advance (knowing that the release would be 4.5 rather than 5.0). If we went with names, we could talk about upcoming releases easily before we knew a number, but this would be a change in our release strategy (for good or bad).

Anyway, I think names would have to be assigned by dictator to avoid this becoming yet another minor squabbling point. :-)

bertboerland’s picture

bertboerland commented

No takers, no action, not important. Closing.