On 01/14/2014 11:18 AM, 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"
Maybe Plasma 201406 for version number
I like the marine animal/fish metaphor. Prolly don't need much promo
domain expertise to come up with the name.
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.
d is for Devil Ray.
lots of choices
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_fish_names
how about Aholehole for A?
Carl
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.
Cheers,
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