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I'll forward +</I>><i> to -discuss next week for further review, so please comment here +</I>><i> and now already. :-p +</I>><i> +</I>><i> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:31, Romain d'Alverny +</I>><i> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">rdalverny at gmail.com</A>> wrote: +</I>><i> >>>  * Mageia 1 DVD (32 or 64bit) +</I>><i> >>>  * Mageia 1 dual arch CD +</I>><i> >>>  * Mageia 1 netinstall CD +</I>><i> >>>  * Mageia 1 LiveCD (32, 64bit, locale specific) +</I>><i> >>>  * Mageia 1 Mobile (for an equivalent to Flash) +</I>><i> >>> +</I>><i> >>> that we can explain in a download/selection page depending on +</I>><i> >>> the intended uses, with a set of default download made +</I>><i> >>> available in one click (typically, that could be the 32bit +</I>><i> >>> LiveCD or dualarch CD). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As I'm drafting the beta1 download page, and to prepare further +</I>><i> stuff, I suggest the following naming scheme: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> "Mageia 1 (tag) (arch) (flavour) (support)" +</I>><i> +</I>><i> with an optional "tag", "arch" and "flavour", "support" being CD, +</I>><i> DVD, BlueRay or other. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As in, with "Mageia 1 beta1" plus: +</I>><i> - "Live KDE CD" or "32bit Live KDE CD" +</I>><i> - "32bit DVD" +</I>><i> - "Dual Arch CD" +</I>><i> - "Network Install CD" +</I>><i> +</I>><i> ISO filenames would be, for instance, here: +</I>><i> - mageia-1-live-kde-europa-cd-beta1-i586.iso +</I>><i> - mageia-1-live-gnome-asia-cd-beta1-i586.iso +</I>><i> - mageia-1-dvd-beta1-i586.iso +</I>><i> - mageia-1-dvd-beta1-x86_64.iso +</I>><i> - mageia-1-cd-dualarch.iso +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Automatically built/released test ISOs could follow the same +</I>><i> nomenclature: +</I>><i> - cauldron-20110320230321-dvd-i586-qapass.iso +</I>><i> - cauldron-20110320220422-dvd-x86_64-qafail.iso +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That would go with the following "template" +</I>><i> {product}-{version}-{flavour}-{support}-{arch}-{qalabel}.iso with: +</I>><i> - product = mageia or cauldron +</I>><i> - version = version number or timestamp +</I>><i> - flavour (optional) = here, mostly for live-gnome-asia, +</I>><i> live-kde-europa which could be parsed as well +</I>><i> - support = cd, dvd, br, other? +</I>><i> - arch = i586, x86_64, other +</I>><i> - qalabel (optional) = qapass, qafail +</I>><i> - all values lowercase +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Now... both schemes (the "technical one" for the ISO file and the +</I>><i> "human rememberable one" for all the rest of us) don't match. That's +</I>><i> not perfect and certainly a stronger take could simplify all this. +</I> +I like it. (I wouldn't make flavour optional, although it does +make for awful long filenames if you spell them right out.) + +Just a little swerve: + +I thought of two subsets of each release: the version (LiveCD, USB, +Network Install, whatever) and the +{type|variety|model|configuration|style|branch} - I didn't go as far +as you in packing/parsing information from the names of installables +- but I think mine can stretch and meet yours in the middle (if you +will excuse my metaphors, which have gotten out and are trashing +the room). + +I'm thinking about names that can also be comfortable people whose +grasp of the term "architecture" is tenuous, even before we +abbreviate it. 8-) + +So, could we maybe make architecture into model; flavour into style; +support into media, tag into type; and maybe we could split the +current style into style and {region|language}... so: + +mageia-1-live-kde-europa-cd-beta1-i586.iso + +name, version, type, style, region, media, status, model...? + +This is a *lot* of information for a newbie to parse. + + +Cheers! + +-- +Trish Fraser, JD9R RQ2D +52.4161N,16.9303E +wo mrt 30 20:18:05 CEST 2011 +GNU/Linux 1997-2010 #283226 counter.li.org +andromeda up 2 hour(s), 33 min. +kernel 2.6.33.7-desktop-2mnb +-- +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: signature.asc +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 490 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-marketing/attachments/20110330/91d16ece/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000201.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000203.html">[Mageia-marketing] Mageia product naming/scoping +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#199">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#199">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#199">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#199">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-marketing">More information about the Mageia-marketing +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |