Codenames and version numbers

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How should we call our releases?

Names of heroes from games
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Names of villians from games
3
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Names of stars, planets
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71%
Names of alcoholic beverages brands
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Names of races from <insert scfi universe of your choice>
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Names of catastrophes
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Codenames and version numbers

Post by beni » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:02 pm

Hi everyone.

Let's think about codenames for future Orxonox releases. I think it's cool and funny and a good organized roadmap and a motivating name for every milestone is already half of the work done (well, close ;-) )

Well, we discussed shortly about this matter at lunch and names from movies and stuff isn't that great without making the naming thing ridiculous.

We thought about giving the releases names from ITET lectures. Milestone 0.1 would be called "Digitech" in this case. Well it's probably a nice idea, but we should probably not rely on the ETH too much right now, since we search for a worldwide and none-ETH community as well.

So propose a naming system and give an example. I in my opinion like it when the names have something incremental. Meaning that we start at the bacteria or virus and stop at the homo sapiens (something like that).

A nice example is Ubuntu using a adjective and a animal name with the same letter at the beginning to name its releases. Also those animals get more intelligent and/or nicer to look at the higher the version goes.

With the version numbers we think it's good to go with the semesters. So this version here is 0.1 (since it's the first semester we started OrxonoxV2) monthly releases (if there are any) would be 0.1.10 for the October release. We get to 1.x when we think we can call it a game, a main release.

So questions now: what about codenames? Do we want any, if yes what kind and how? It would also be interesting to name the monthly releases. Ubuntu for example called the Feisty Fawn sub versions "herd", Gutsy Gibbon's sub versions are going to be "tribe".

Make your suggestions and we will start a poll if we have decided.
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Post by lieni » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:22 pm

Omg, Version "Disk. Math" is gonna suck like hell... buggier than everything seen before ;-)
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Post by x3n » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:01 pm

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Using ITET lectures as names for our releases was more a joke than a real proposition. ;)

Another suggestion: Lets name the releases after (big) catastrophes.

Examples:
- Hiroshima
- Titanic
- Hindenburg
- Chernobyl
- Pompeii
- Challenger
- Chicxulub
- ...

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Post by beni » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:32 pm

Interesting..

My mother does name her jam after catastrophes as well. I'll bring some Concorde mirabelle jam ;)

I got this with the joke, I was merely retelling the joke, since I think it's a good example anyway.
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Post by Dorian » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:56 pm

What about names that have something to to with the game's topic? eg. galaxies, stars, or some names from sci-fi series....
Star names sound often exotic, here's a list of common names; perhaps we can combine something toghether so that it reflects this "ubuntu-naming-style"...
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Post by sandra » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:10 am

I would also propose something which is more or less about the same topic as the game itself. Stars would sound great, but a disadvantage would be that the stars aren't in any order. So my suggestions:

-> Star's names, starting with A and followed by a star starting with the letter B and so on. I hope there's for every letter a name.

-> Planet's names, starting with the nearest to the sun for example. We might just run out of names one day ;)

-> Names of satellites, space stations or shuttles in some historical order, also I have no clue if they sound good or if there are enough.

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Post by lieni » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:23 pm

:) yeah, thats a good idea, lets just put all planet, star, nebula, satellite names and other intergalactic garbage (like han solo's millennium falcon) in a set, use quicksort over all their distances from earth.
For major releases we can use the planets, for smaller releases or patch level releases we can use the stars and satellites... and so on... until we finally reach the millennium falcon ;-)
Well, let's forget the millennium falcon... but names like phobos and deimos (sorry could just think only of some ordinary ones) sound cool in my opinion.

We should stick to that idea!
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Post by superegg » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:48 pm

Well, the problem about this star system is that anybody else, better said anybody normal, would not know that these names are star names. They would get confused :D

Another idea would be to use the 8 planets in sun system (without earth since it's on a higher level than the other 8 ). The problem is then that the number is quite limited.

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Post by Dorian » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:32 pm

And these names are so boringly well known... ;) Some uncommon names would do better in my opinion.
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Post by lieni » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:47 pm

Yea, sure :) I was just too lazy to look up some new ones :) or do you also think that the planet names are boring?
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Post by beni » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:47 am

I think it's a good idea. I would pick names though which are not that easy to recognize. Ogre uses those deities, which you just don't know if you don't know the books/games.

So I would rather go for cool names instead of correctness.
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Post by Dude » Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:42 pm

How about taking one TV series related to space, for example Stargate, that has a lot of episodes, and name every new release about the next episode. Or names of Star Trek races, since there are a lot, maybe Klingon's version :wink: I just can't imagine a possible order...
Now I just noticed the bottle of Korean rice wine on my bookshelf. We could name the releases after alcoholic beverages, starting with nonalcoholic beer, cause it also contains a little alcohol, and close with some very strange high percentage Russian vodka :D

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Post by beni » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:27 pm

Dude wrote:How about taking one TV series related to space, for example Stargate, that has a lot of episodes, and name every new release about the next episode. Or names of Star Trek races, since there are a lot, maybe Klingon's version :wink: I just can't imagine a possible order...
Now I just noticed the bottle of Korean rice wine on my bookshelf. We could name the releases after alcoholic beverages, starting with nonalcoholic beer, cause it also contains a little alcohol, and close with some very strange high percentage Russian vodka :D
TV series is possible, but one has to be careful which one to use. Some series may be fun, but are ridiculous sources for names. Races of Star Trek or pick-your-favorite-scifi are good as long as it's a commonly accepted series.

Alcohol beverages are cool as well, when the names are appealing. I don't know if I like a Wahrsteiner release, really...
Also alcoholic beverages do not have that much to do with what we're standing for. That's a big point as well.
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Post by nicolasc » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:47 pm

Fair point about the TV-series...
On the other hand, we might look like Debian - yikes.

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Post by beni » Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:37 pm

Toy Story??? Come on!! Now I know why I'll never have Debian.
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