The names of previous Lemmy versions were all very boring and repetetive. We need something much more creative. Any ideas?
Eh, if someone on the team is feeling creative I don’t mind fun version numbers but semantic versioning is quite searchable and reduces confusion.
One does not exclude the other. You can have a fancy name and a semantic versioning.
The problem is that it is almost always just one lf them. Let’s say that v0.20 is called “Fuck Spez” and v0.21 is called “YouKnowWhatFuckMuskToo”.
Most people are going to refer to them by either the number or the name, almost never are both used. The biggest problem with names is that they are rarely sortable (google did it with android, for a bit but not anymore), so in the future it is hard to know which is which without resorting to looking at a list of releases.
For example, in the future when we are on v0.30 someone might say “ah, but this has been an issue since “Fuck Spez”.” And then most likely you have to look it up to know what they are talking about. If we coulld force everyone to alwaya write “version “Fuck Spez” (v0.20)” then it would be great, but that never happens.
I personally prefer just semantic versioning for this reason.
People can search the name or SemVer and get the other name. It’s not hard, not time-consuming, and it’s way more fun. I genuinely miss when Android had dessert-themed names because it made the updates that much more exciting
What if the names were picked from whatever news was prominent during the release week. During last summer we could have had something like blackout or APIcalypse.
I think that’s the case and why I said it’s fine in my OC, but the more I think about it I’m slightly concerned it might cause some fragmentation “Does anyone know how to force a user sync in Lightfoot?” and “How can I sync users (forced) in v13.8.12?”
Yeah it muddles with searching for answers, especially when the names are common things. Apple can get away with naming macOS on places in California, but it’s going to be tough searching “having trouble posting comments on Thor” or whatever. The naming scheme can work, but it has to be very unique
I have exactly this problem when trying to fix issues on my MacBook :(
Hm… Good point.
Based on classification? Taken from a Wikipedia article concerning lemmings.
It’s software versioning, not a new breakfast cereal
No we don’t.
Versioning like this is good for knowing how far off you are from current.
We’ve been notoriously bad about doing more frequent releases, but if we were to release every month, then naming them could get annoying really quickly.
I’d prefer to just stay with the semantic version numbering, like a lot of projects with a ton of releases do. Like look at react’s releases.
The fun named versioning makes sense for operating systems, that release only like once a year, but not for apps, docker services, libraries, etc.
We only do major versions around once a year so those could still be named, while using numbers for minor versions. Lemmy is more user-facing than react, so it would make sense to have a more user-friendly versioning.
I’d be good with that.
So are you saying we are gonna get monthly updates 👀👀
I’d like that, we just have to be more disciplined about not adding breaking changes too often.
Take your time
I agree that there shouldn’t be official names for versions.
Hmm so you’re looking for a naming theme like the old Android scheme of Desserts or MacOS California Parks.
List off the top of my head
- Tree Species
- Cities, Towns, Villages in Cuba
- Mushroom Species
- Names of Wildflowers
That’s all I got for now.
My vote is for the mushroom species, I also just love eating mushrooms 🍄🤤
Numbers. All the stupid ubuntu names are cheese.
It sounds a bit too soon to use release names, especially given that Lemmy is still in alpha.
When a major release comes out, I suggest using colony names (fictional or real), like the pirate republic.
In general, I like names that highlight the decentralised aspect of the fediverse.
I usually go with strange long animal names… like “Desert Cottontail”
Books of the Bible, Torah and Koran
The amount of controversy it would generate would propel Lemmy into international headlines.
or chapters from “Das Capital”
I like the TeX version scheme, it starts with version 3. After that it’s:
3.1
3.14
3.141
3.1415 etc. Current stable release is 3.141592653. The message is that each version is a more accurate approximation of pi. It’s not growing much bigger, but better.This is fun but also incredibly awful
Just like TeX :)
Call the next one Final and the one after that Final.Final
- goddamn.final
- truly.final
- final.i.swear
- final.ffs
- no.more.revision
- no.more.revision.please
- no.more.goddamn.revision
- no.more.fcken.revisiom
- no.more.revision.ffs
use.this.one.actually
I feel attacked.
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Having a name for a version would be nice for each major release (1.0.0 would have a name but 1.x.x wouldn’t, but 2.0.0 would, etc)
The descriptions up until 0.18.5 seem very informative.
Name it after famous Lemmy’s.
V1.0 - Killmister
V2.0 - KoopaLarry
Roy
Wendy
Iggy
Morton
Ludwig
