Re: Common sense

["Carlos Garnacho" <garnacho tuxerver net>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:41:44 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote
> sigh.
> 
> Release names serve a purpose IMO, they are not totally purposeless 
> even if they are meaningless.
> 
> "Proposed Release Naming Guidelines"
> 
> 1 release names should avoid words and phrases that are:
>    * likely to start a flamewar
>    * have high potential to cause offense (i.e  contain sexual or 
> political references)   * obviously difficult to spell/pronounce [1]
> 
> 2 stable release names should be posted to desktop-devel-list for 
> comment before adoption,  and should be non-controversial.
> 
> 3 selection of release names should assume that names will reflect 
> on the perception   of the GNOME platform, GNOME Foundation, and its 
> members.
> 
> The recent release would have marginally failed 2.2 seeing as how 
> 'testicles' is arguably a sexual reference.
> 
> Is that not simple enough?  IMO we don't need a 20-page rulebook to 
> avoid _most_ potential problems here.
> 
> [1] I am not sure about 1.3, since it potentially discriminates 
> against non-English speakers.

Oh, then we should use esperanto, or translate them to any language talked
under the sun. This is going insane IMO

    Carlos

> 
> - Bill
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Carlos Garnacho <garnacho tuxerver net>
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