On 08/11/2010 06:17 PM, Jerome Velociter wrote:
Hello friends,
I would like to propose introducing the use of code names for each release cycle of XWiki (2.x, 3.x, etc.), using a agreed-on scheme (a la Ubuntu [1]). The main reason behind this proposal is that :
I think code names work best when release cycles are long. Ubuntu is released twice a year. That means 7 code names since 2007 when I started using it. I hardly remember these code names, but I know I started with 7.04. We release 4 major versions of XWiki Enterprise in a year (and we want more). Soon we'll have lots of code names and they will be useless in identifying our previous releases. +0 for using code names +0 for cocktail naming scheme (I think we can find something better) -0 for random code names (e.g. random cocktail names, see Anca's comment) Thanks, Marius
A. it's groovy :) B. there is no B.
As for the code name scheme, with regard to recent events involving a fair portion of the XWiki Development team [2], I would like to propose the use of cocktail names as code names. Some examples - for the sake of illustration : XWiki "Cuba Libre" 2.5, XWiki "White Russian" 2.6, XWiki "Bloody Mary" 3.0, etc. you name it! [3]. Virgin cocktails tolerated :)
The release manager for each cycle would have the honor to pick up the release code name. Isn't that an awesome incentive ?
+1 for all that
Jerome.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames [2] http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWiki+Seminar'10 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cocktails _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs