Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 04:34 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
> Well, if this is a democracy, of sorts, I'll stick my neck out and  
> vote to stick with a release-703, or official-703, kind'a format. I  
> just really, really dislike dates floating into version naming (and  
> even worse product naming - where the goal is to make you feel out
> of  
> date in time for the next hard sell). Also avoids all that, "so
> whose  
> calendar format/locale are we going to use in the name", "what's so  
> magical about the end of a year that we get a whole new number to  
> release", and "so what specific release version number did go out in  
> the April-2008 build?"
> 
> Gary 
I don't know the answer but as I told Michael Stone using names like 656
together with names like update-1-703 is shear lunacy. What ever the
naming scheme is it should consistent without on all levels of
discussion about the build. The indication of which are ready fro prime
time by using words like stable, development or unstable might be
acceptable, but once it is stable the name should blend with the names
of other stable builds.

In case you missed it in the support group teleconference there was a
suggestion to name Update-1-703, Uruguay-703.
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