[Koha-devel] Version numbering, starting a discussion

[Ramon Andiñach]

On 05/12/2011, at 10:30 , Owen Leonard wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Mason James <mtj at kohaaloha.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2011-12-2, at 2:31 AM, Owen Leonard wrote:
>> 
>>>> Screw them.  If that's the only reason, let's skip to 5.8 for the
>>>> next release, or append ".not-a-LibLime-fake" to ours.  But do we
>>>> want to let them interfere with the real project in yet another way?
>>> 
>>> I strongly agree with this.
>> 
>> yeah, i'm kinda OK with this too... (a bump to 5.8 for the next Koha release)
> 
> Okay, just to be clear, I was strongly agreeing with the "screw them"
> part. I interpreted the 5.8 comment as sarcasm.
> 
> -- Owen

A counter thought. 
Some time back a small but useful browser called Netscape skipped numbers to bring its numbers in line with IE.
I always felt that this was pandering to IE, and letting the competition set the schedule.

That said, anything but Mozilla's current numbering scheme/philosophy! Even Ubuntu's is more intelligible than that.

As for the naming idea. Two ideas:
1. Words with roughly similar meanings to koha. (I suspect there's not enough, but haven't really looked into it)
2. Other famous "gifts" (other than koha!).

-ramon.