porg
Active Member
I propose to first freely discuss the issue, thereby get an overview of opinions and suggestions, and then either get a reasoned / authoritative answer from an expert or if the outcome is rather undecided, conduct a democratic poll on this, to eventually have a terminological standard.
1) If we talk/write about the OS of the Pandora, a uniquely recognize-able name is desire-able! Is there already one agreed one? I don't see that yet! Searching the boards, brings 105 results for the term "Angstrom" and 64 for "Pandora OS", and other references too. Quite undecided. No dominant term yet.
2) I yet have not identified what is the (short!) syntax/scheme for refering to a certain version of that OS in contexts such as the forum, game specifications/requirements, issue tracker, etc. What is it? And if there is no standard yet, what should it be?
My opinions/reasoning:
Ad 1) Angstrom is the base, but then again there are enough Pandora specific changes/additions, that make this OS deserve its own name, also easing clear identification. I propose to call it simply "Pandora OS", rather than containing Angstrom in the name, which would only make it lengthy/complicated. Of course in the documentation/info/legalstuff/etc the relation to Angstrom is mentioned and honored, but the OS name should be plain and simple. The only openly question to me within that logic is wether to name it "Pandora OS" or "PandoraOS" (written as one word), the first being the aesthetic winner, the second the uniquely identifying winner, especially if you consider web search, where the term "Pandora" alone, refers to many other entities/products/services/etc, "PandoraOS" however would be quite a clear association.
Ad 2) I would propose to simply use the "number dot number dot …" notation (1.2.3) but then the question is, what is what in this scheme? So far I have come along "Release number", "Hotfix number", "Alpha number", not knowing wether there are other used or intended scheme/number parts. For reasoning in the discussion, we can use the Wikipedia article on: Software versioning
1) If we talk/write about the OS of the Pandora, a uniquely recognize-able name is desire-able! Is there already one agreed one? I don't see that yet! Searching the boards, brings 105 results for the term "Angstrom" and 64 for "Pandora OS", and other references too. Quite undecided. No dominant term yet.
2) I yet have not identified what is the (short!) syntax/scheme for refering to a certain version of that OS in contexts such as the forum, game specifications/requirements, issue tracker, etc. What is it? And if there is no standard yet, what should it be?
My opinions/reasoning:
Ad 1) Angstrom is the base, but then again there are enough Pandora specific changes/additions, that make this OS deserve its own name, also easing clear identification. I propose to call it simply "Pandora OS", rather than containing Angstrom in the name, which would only make it lengthy/complicated. Of course in the documentation/info/legalstuff/etc the relation to Angstrom is mentioned and honored, but the OS name should be plain and simple. The only openly question to me within that logic is wether to name it "Pandora OS" or "PandoraOS" (written as one word), the first being the aesthetic winner, the second the uniquely identifying winner, especially if you consider web search, where the term "Pandora" alone, refers to many other entities/products/services/etc, "PandoraOS" however would be quite a clear association.
Ad 2) I would propose to simply use the "number dot number dot …" notation (1.2.3) but then the question is, what is what in this scheme? So far I have come along "Release number", "Hotfix number", "Alpha number", not knowing wether there are other used or intended scheme/number parts. For reasoning in the discussion, we can use the Wikipedia article on: Software versioning
