Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 09:21 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:28:21PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > So maybe GNOME should switch to a purely name based versioning scheme.
> > Drop the 2 prefix, it just becomes GNOME not GNOME 2 and give each release
> > a new name (avoid animals, it's been done ;). That would also focus
> > peoples minds back on iterative improvements instead of breaking backwards
> > compatibility or top-down rethinks. Instead of "GNOME 2.12" it could be
> > called, oh, I don't know, the GNOME Topaz release.
> 
> Didn't we do that with "October GNOME".  I forgot why we stopped?
> 
because we released April GNOME a year later, and users were confused.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>