On Saturday 18 January 2014 21:53:55 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colo...@autistici.org> wrote: > > On Saturday 18 January 2014 15:53:16 Mark Gaiser wrote: > >> I don't see anything wrong with naming the next plasma as just "Plasma > >> 2". and subsequent releases should follow the name: "Plasma > >> 2.<update>" so "Plasma 2.1". There is nothing wrong with that. It > >> works for tons of software out there including the Linux kernel. > >> Changing to something more fancy adds exactly nothing. > >> So i disagree and judging from the responses thus far it seems like > >> it's going to happen anyway. That leaves me to the known phrase: "if > >> you can't beat them, join them". > > > > Code names aside, this would still mean that we'd have a progression from > > Plasma 4.11 (nobody outside KDE calls it "Plasma 1") to Plasma 2, which at > > least I would not be able to properly explain to anyone. > > Changing the numbering scheme would clearly indicate that the next plasma > > version is not just the next iteration after 4.11, but something different > > altogether. > > Has the "Plasma 5" idea been dropped entirely? That jump in numbering > would show "something different altogether" and we could still do > "Plasma 5 by KDE."
we also discussed the option of "Plasma 5". We had some supporters of calling it that way and also very vocal opponents (/me raises hand). I fear that if we call it "5" it will end as "KDE 5" in media and with users. If we change the version pattern completely people might finally get the idea (especially if applications keep with version numbers). But of course the main idea behind the version pattern change to a date based version number is to add more information to it. The main problem with version numbers is that they don't carry any information and nobody knows how old that version actually is. For our own releases we know it because we can do math. So we know that 4.8 is two years old as we currently have 4.12 and it's four releases away. But if one looks at a more global scheme that information is just not there. How old is Firefox 15 or Chrome 12 or Linux 2.6.32? A date based scheme helps there. Cheers Martin
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