Am 07.03.2015 um 19:31 schrieb hellekin:
> On 03/07/15 14:21, william moss wrote:
>>
>>> Cool yes, but useful? Numbers have the huge advantage that everybody knows
>>> their order, which is quite important when referring to versions.
>>
> *** Release *NAMES* never replaced version numbers.
>
> Hence Debian 8 "Jessie" and Devuan 1.0 "Jessie".

Oh yes, they do. Often people familar with the cool names use only them.
Many documents and discussions use only the names, omit the numbers.

This effectively locks everybody else out of the discussion, or at least
forces them to google for a dictionary that translates the arbitrary
names back to meaningful numbers.

Even the official release information (first google hit) does it:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/index.en.html
Nowhere on that page is a version number or a release date, so people
not familar with cool have no idea how outdated this might be.