Re: Requesting a naming convention for releases

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Oscar Levi wrote:
> > No, we're not running out of names.  We're hit by that in > 5years
> > since there are about 15-20 names left.  
> 
> You miss the point.  At five releases a year, it will take five years
> to reuse a letter.  By this time, we will have forgotton the previous
> one and there will be no confusion.  I suggested lexical order so that
> ordering for the few active releases is obvious.

 1st We don't have five releases per year but only four if we're lucky,
     more likely three or two.

 2nd We're not going to forget the old releases and names.
     Old names are listed on some web pages, new names are stored
     elsewhere.

Regards,

	Joey

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