[eclipse.org-planning-council] Fwd: [ide-dev] Dropping the release names

For those not on the ide-dev list, there is a discussion over the desire to change to numerical release names based on the year. We've talked about that, but I'm not sure where we left it.

Doug.

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From: Doug Schaefer <cdtdoug@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [ide-dev] Dropping the release names (Neon, Oxygen) from user downloads
To: Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The June release has to be significantly named. It is the only release per year that allows major version changes to plug-ins. We need to make that clear to the community. As such, we can't use the month.

BTW, I'll forward this discussion to the planning council mailing list so that they are brought up to speed on our thoughts. I'm not sure they're all here.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Carsten Reckord <reckord@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 29.04.2016 10:44, Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:

Here is an experiment - any Chrome users out there? Who can tell me the last time they looked at the version number of their browser to see if their browser is old?

Actually just a few days ago, but that was coincidental.

Chrome and Eclipse versions are pretty much apples and oranges - at least as far as end users are concerned. Chrome has a very strong and smooth update story that does a really good job of making the version irrelevant to me. Eclipse doesn't.

If we should ever get to the point where automatic updates can just be applied seamlessly in the background, by all means, let's throw away all user-facing code names and version numbers completely. I'd party hard on that day...

Yes, that's where we must head. We have the technology, we just need the discipline.

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