On the subject of naming the Dapper successor

[Paul Sladen]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > user who decided to download the iso file of 5.4 instead of 5.1 :)
> Yeah, I missed that possibility :-)

The entire issue would be solved and be non-existant, if release dates were
March and September (6.3, 6.9) and 'extranous' zeros could go away.

I'm half-minded to (jokingly) suggest bringing forward the release date by a
fortnight for the next release cycle, to make things easy (...would require
the cooperation of GNOME ;-)...  Or in the other direction (6.5, 6.11).

Now, if the general population understood hexadecimal, we could have
6.4 and 6.a!  Or even 6.33, 6.83 (in decimal years!).

Personally, I like the current numbering;  it sucks /less/ than most of the
alternatives such as a Microsoft-style "Ubuntu 2003 Plus Edition for 64-bit",
but could definately do with fixing if a good (better) solution is presented.

	-Paul
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