[Mageia-discuss] Wish List

Mon Oct 4 15:45:24 CEST 2010

André Machado a écrit :
+>> Mageia 23, Mageia 37. Sounds good? At least for me it doesn't :)
+>>      
+> Fedora 14 beta is out. Slackware 13.1, too. But when we get there,  we
+> can improvise. We can do like Corel DRAW! X4 , that has a impact  name
+> and is the 14th version (X4 = X + 4 and X is 10 in Roman numerals). Or
+> we can use both, eg: M$ Office 2010 is, internally, Office 14.
+>
+> For more than a version to year, we can use months, sequential numbers
+> or a strange numbering system like Mageia 1.0.20110101 where last part
+> is YYYYMMDD.
+>    
+Numbering with the date appended is more suitable for individual 
+applications, like Mozilla (Firefox or Thunderbird or Seamonkey), or 
+Openoffice (or Go-oo or Libreoffice) among others.
+
+Since a distro like Mageia is a collection of applications from various 
+sources, it is useful to indicate at least the year in the version 
+number, to indicate generally the vintage of the applications contained.
+I favour something like 2010.1 for this fall, or 2011.0 for the spring.
+(avoiding the car model type numbering of Mandriva, which would be 
+"2011.0" and "2011.1".)
+It could just as easily be 10.1 or 11.0, for a shorter number that is 
+somewhat more distinct from Mandriva numbering.  But with the full year 
+included, it is obvious that it is indeed the year.
+
+A name like "Breezy something" (I forget what), indicates nothing about 
+its age to those not very familiar with the distro, is it older or newer 
+than "somethingelse" from the same distro ?
+The lack of numbering could create unnecessary problems attracting 
+serious users to Mageia.
+
+- André (andre999)
+