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[Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Friday 05 May 2006 06:06, Eric Sandall wrote:
> One reason for not applying the themes to our versions (Sorcery's test,
> stable, and devel branches and the devel, test, stable-rc, stable,
> z-rejected, and games grimoires) is because non-descriptive names are
> confusing. 

How about descriptive names then? They can still be fantasy related or at 
least less dull.

(devel) := wild
test := modern
stable-rc := ancient
stable := prehistoric
z-rejected := necromantic
games := bardic

Just a bad example. 

> Take, for example, the following:
> Grimoires:
>   terra
>   agua
>   air
>   luna
>   fuego
>   apothecary
>
> Now, which do you think is which? I thought of them as:
>   apothecary = devel (drugs kill people, and devel kills machines)
>   agua = test (water is fluid and often changing)
>   terra = stable (the earth is very stable)
>   luna = stable-rc (the moon is less stable than the earth, but orbits it)
>   fuego = z-rejected (fiery and unstable)
>   air = games (nothing of substance here, just fun! ;))
>
> Note I am not proposing these names, just trying to point out why I
> prefer the current naming scheme for our branches to picking arbitrary
> names.
Your example is pretty good; I'd use fuego for devel and something bad for 
z-rejected (misery, death, plague).

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