Fun with the names

Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 10:32 am by

At this pivotal time of the brand new version 2.2.1 just released, I thought I’d do the retrospective on our release names to the date. So here goes, in the reverse chronological order:

  • Version 2.2.1 — the “One, two, five!” release
  • Version 2.2.0rc2 — the “What is your quest?” release
  • Version 2.2.0rc1 — the “Help, Help! I’m being repressed!” release
  • Version 2.1.95 — the “Listen! I can’t give it to you now. It says, ‘in the event of death’. Uh. Oh! Ah. Ah. Eh.” release
  • Version 2.1.91 — the “Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government” release
  • Version 2.1.90 — no name
  • Version 2.1.5 — no name
  • Version 2.1.4 — no name
  • Version 2.1.3 — no name
  • Version 2.1.0 — the “What are you going to do, bleed on me?” release
  • Version 2.0.11 — the “I will not buy this record, it is scratched” release
  • Version 2.0.10 — the “Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch” release
  • Version 2.0.9 — the “Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition!” release
  • Version 2.0.8 — the “Romani ite domum” release
  • Version 2.0.7 — the “Romanes eunt domus” release
  • Version 2.0.6 — the “Just like my dear Papa!” release
  • Version 2.0.5 — the “It’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese” release
  • Version 2.0.4 — the “That’s enough music for now, lads.” release
  • Version 2.0.3 — the “Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…” release
  • Version 2.0.2 — the “Little fermented curd will do the trick” release
  • Version 2.0.1 — the “None shall pass” release
  • Version 2.0.0 — the “The Bright Side of Life” release
  • Version 1.1.99 — the “What… is your favourite colour?” release
  • Version 1.1.95 — the “When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled” release
  • Version 1.1.90 — the “Successful encyclopedia salesman” release
  • Version 1.1.3 — the “Splunge: this is a great idea, but possibly lousy, and I’m not being indecisive” release
  • Version 1.1.2 — the “Confuse-a-cat” release
  • Version 1.1.1 — the “Rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, or strawberry tart” release
  • Version 1.1.0 — the “And now for something completely different” release
  • Version 1.0.0 — the “Stable as a tombstone” release
  • Version 0.98.0 — the “Round me off” release
  • Version 0.9.5 — the “Fix me up” release
  • Version 0.9.4 — the “This used to bug me…” release

And prior to this we did not name the releases.

Alex

Filed Under: Gramps Releases, History, Something Completely Different

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