Re: [virgo-dev] Virgo release branding

[Joel Rosi-Schwartz <Joel.Rosi-Schwartz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, Alpha, Beta, Gamma... may be a bit confusing to the end user :-)  I do like using the goddess names though. Barbara and I have always named our computers after ladies, many of them gods. F.i, currently her computer is Oya and mine is Ayao her sister. We like the esoteric over the mundane. Point is that with a little exploration is possible to come up with some very interesting and meaningful names in the category.

On 15 Jun 2011, at 14:16, Hristo Iliev wrote:

I also like the idea. More links below.

Star names: http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.lst:

VIRGO                            Vir        VIRGINIS              the virgin
 ALPHA     Vir        Spica or Azimech                            "ear of wheat" (held by Virgo), ??
 BETA      Vir        Zavijava or Alaraph                         "corner of the barker"; "grape gatherer"
 GAMMA     Vir        Porrima                                     (Roman goddess of childbirth)
 DELTA     Vir        Auva                                        "the barker"
 EPSILON   Vir        Vindemiatrix                                "vine-harvestress"
 ZETA      Vir        Heze                                        ??
 ETA       Vir        Zaniah                                      "corner"
 IOTA      Vir        Syrma                                       "train" (of a garment)

Planet names: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings_of_minor_planet_names

On 15 June 2011 15:08, Kapukaranov, Borislav <borislav.kapukaranov@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Some inspirational links on the topic J

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains

http://www.gods-and-monsters.com/list-of-mythical-creatures.html

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_myth_gods_index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_fruits#A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/premier-league/teams.html ;)

 

Best Regards

Bobby

 

 

 

From: virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kapukaranov, Borislav
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 1:23 PM
To: Virgo Project
Subject: Re: [virgo-dev] Virgo release branding

 

What a great idea!

Release branding will certainly add a nice touch to the personality and popularity of a release.

 

We’ll have to find an area that has good variety of names and won’t clash with Eclipse’s branding.

Animals are obviously good because of the great variety – we can take birds for example, obviously cats are already taken J

A bird with ‘A’ is the Great Argus, which is also known as Phoenix in some Asian areas, which is kind of symbolic considering the dm server and Virgo relation. J

 

Anyway there surely are many more options and it would be interesting to see other suggestions.

 

Best Regards

Bobby

 

From: virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:virgo-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glyn Normington
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:38 PM
To: Virgo Project
Subject: [virgo-dev] Virgo release branding

 

Past releases of Virgo have consisted of two or three deliverables all at the same version number. This is likely to be true for the next release.

 

However, in the future, we anticipate releasing runtime and tooling together, a bit like a mini release train. At that point, not all the deliverables will have the same version number. In fact, we want the freedom to be able to rev the runtime and tooling independently of each other. So in the future, release branding may become important.

 

Release branding is also a useful marketing device. If we chose the right release brands, they could create some "buzz" in the community. It is also handy for future releases so we can refer to them before we've settled on the version numbers.

 

Would it therefore make sense to adopt branding for the 3.0 release so that the community gets used to a release brand?

 

Examples of release branding are Eclipse and Ubuntu with its alphabetically sequenced release brands (based on animals in the case of Ubuntu), Mac OS (more animals).

 

Counter-examples are Java (unless "Java 6" is counted as a release brand for 1.6) and Tomcat.

 

I guess a Virgo release brand would get a little messy if and when Virgo joins the Eclipse release train as both brands would then apply to the release. But we would expect also to release independently of the release train, so there would be quite a confusing sequence.

 

An alternative to release branding is just to stick with the kernel version number as the "headline" version for a release with other components such as tooling free to have a different version number.

 

What do you think? If you favour release branding, do you have suggestions for the actual brands?

 

Regards,
Glyn

 

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