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[Martin Albisetti <argentina@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas<mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's not really appropriate to refer to Ubuntu distribution series as,
> for example, "Karmic 9.10" or "Jaunty 9.04". Ubuntu itself doesn't refer
> to series that way, anywhere that I know of. Ideally, Launchpad should
> render a distribution series .displayname as its codename until release
> date, and its version number from release date onwards, because that
> matches what distribution vendors do officially. (It would also serve as
> a subtle visual hint as to which series shown in the page have been
> released and which have not.)

I think we should refer to the series as "Karmic 9.10". While I know
there's a convention to stop calling released by their code names
after they're released, the truth is that so many people know about it
by their code name and not their release version, that it gets
confusing. Showing both solves this problem.



-- 
Martin