[Bf-committers] Roadmap 2.5 proposal

[Thomas Dinges]

Matt Ebb schrieb:
> I think after all the hype, most people will be expecting something  
> better than what we're going to provide, so it's really important to  
> communicate this properly and clearly - you can't expect every user  
> out there to have seen and understood this roadmap and naming system,  
> which is really something for internal blender development, not  
> something that the general public will get.
>   
+1.
This is something which we really have to think about, nothing would be 
worse than calling it 2.50 and then people are not statisfied because it 
doesn't work properly yet.
> Like cam says, some options are:
> A) we can call it 2.50 (and then have to explain that it's part of a  
> bigger 2.5 series, and that it's really not a final release, and blah  
> blah blah), which has a high potential for people to misunderstand/ 
> misinterpret/not even read lengthy explanations.
> B) or we can call it something obvious like "2.50 beta" or "test1" or  
> "pr1" , which everyone immediately understands.
>
> I strongly support  B..
>
> cheers,
>
> Matt
>   
I also support option B.

cheers,
Thomas