From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jimmy Tang Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:43 +0000 Message-ID: <20070213220243.GA1993@vual.tchpc.tcd.ie> References: <7v1wl15zc2.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vtzxq3af6.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vhctqyncg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <86sld9hq9v.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 13 23:03:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HH5jr-00048y-Hw for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:03:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751101AbXBMWC7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:02:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751322AbXBMWC7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:02:59 -0500 Received: from tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie ([134.226.112.12]:47753 "EHLO tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751101AbXBMWC6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:02:58 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911242B955; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22515-01; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vual.tchpc.tcd.ie (vual.ipv6.tchpc.tcd.ie [IPv6:2001:770:10:500:2b0:d0ff:fefe:d7d2]) by tabaet.tchpc.tcd.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87822B950; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vual.tchpc.tcd.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id D112119122; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vual.tchpc.tcd.ie ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vual.tchpc.tcd.ie [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02128-07; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: by vual.tchpc.tcd.ie (Postfix, from userid 8176) id BD0D119124; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:02:43 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Useless-Header: I am the Master Blaster!, the faster blaster master blaster faster blaster X-Operating-System: Linux vual.tchpc.tcd.ie 2.4.26 X-Wii-Number: 6053 9064 7271 7948 X-Wii-Nick: zaku X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at tchpc.tcd.ie Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi All, On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:37:03PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Let's call it "American PI minus one" release. Since Americans love to > fsck up the dates, they would write the month first, then the day, > which ends up being 2.14, which is exactly PI - 1 rounded to three digits! > > Alternatively, since they really write 2/14, we could call it the "one > seventh" release... > > in a totally different direction... how about code naming the release(s) with british slang words? since ``git'' is a fairly common british slang word (also used quite abit in ireland too) to describe an unlikeable person. and since the release is going to be cut on the 14th, how about calling it the "snog" release :) not too sure how appropriate it would be to name releases after british slang words as they usually have inappropriate meanings. Jimmy -- Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ | http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/~jtang