[Mageia-discuss] Wish List

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-10-02 18:24, 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.
>
>
Whichever numbering system is used, it should be easily understood by 
the average user and it should not look like it is making the previous 
version sound like an inferior product. I personally don't mind the year 
assignation "Mageia 2010.1" followed by "Magiea 2010.2" which, to me, is 
easily explainable to everyone ... "Mageia 2010.1" is the first release 
of Mageia in 2010 and "Mageia 2010.2" is the second release of Mageia in 
2010.

It should be a numbering system that is easily understood regardless of 
country, culture or age. A 10 year-old and 90 year-old should be able to 
guess and understand the system easily. This could then be our "public" 
numbering system. Easily read and easily understood.

As to the Cauldron, dev etc. versions, then it could very well be a more 
descriptive numbering system based on day/month/year (the metric date 
format) Mageia09022010. This could then be our "dev" and "internal" 
numbering system. We would, of course, promote the fact, that our 
develop system dating and numbering system would follow the long 
established metric formats.

Marc