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Author: mutek
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] Release Names
On lunedì 8 dicembre 2014 16:04:10 CEST, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:31 AM, hellekin <hellekin@???> wrote:
>
>> would amount to support a colonialist vision
>>
>
> My idea, which no one likes, of using a model year as a release name, is,
> in its Gregorian calendar-ish-ness, going to be too white. So"Devuan

2015"
> is likely out.
>
> Ditto I'm guessing you're not going to go for "Année 224 de la

République"
> given the French experience in Africa and Asia.
>
> We could date a release in the Hebrew calendar which would be
> (optimistically) "Devuan 5775". That might still be too white-oppressor.
> Also its going to imply perfect hebrew language and utf-8 support, not to
> mention perfect localization and internationalization, which might be

hard
> to achieve.
>
> I think our best overall, anti-western, anti-white calendar option would

be
> the Islamic calendar, in which case the next release would optimistically
> be called "Devuan 1437". I could see that.
>
> There is a nice javascript page of calendar converters to experiment with

at
>
> https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/
>
> Hopefully some kind of compromise could be possible with a non-western
> chronological timestamp as the very convenient release name.
>
> Remember, Debian made many more mistakes than just the big one of a giant
> bear hug of systemd. Now's a great time to fix the minor wishlist bugs,
> and there's quite a few of them.
>


what about "UNIX" calendar?

Devuan 1420070401

not so easy... :(