[Mageia-discuss] Wish List
andré
andr55 at laposte.net
Thu Oct 7 07:06:17 CEST 2010
Marc Paré a écrit :
>
> 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.
As far as the year designation goes, I definitely think that we should
use the actual year, instead of copying the car industry with something
like 2011.0 for late 2010.
Personally I have some preference for using 2011.0 in March and 2011.1
in October, but 2011.1 and 2011.2 format would be ok.
>
> 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
The date format should be year/month/day, as in 20100209. This is the
official order used by the UN, for example.
It is also used by Mozilla products, and much other software. There is
also a gradual conversion to this format by many international
companies. And much gov't issued id (as in Québec, Canada).
Day-month-year is the traditional European format.
As far as this dev/internal date goes, there is nothing to prevent it
from continuing on the official release version, along with the year of
the release.
- André (andre999)
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