PLD 2.1 again

[Marcin Król]

> It sucks. What's the meaning? Texas Instruments? Some black rapper?

All PLD codenames are taken from Mendeleyevs periodic table.
Ra is Radium, atomic number 88
Ac is Actinium, atomic number 89
Th is Thorium, atomic number 90
PLD 4.x will be Pa, Protactinium, atomic number 91, PLD 5.x will be U,
Uranium, atomic number 92 and so on.
Ti is Titanium, atomic number 22.

> Sorry, it just feels like "let's get some random letters and make sure
> at least one of them is either t or h and none of them are a or c".

As you see above, these are not random letters.

> So that's basically remaking Th in an awkward way. Why bother and not
> just put effort into making upgreading to Th as clean as possible?

Th is faaar from being stable/usable (at least in my opinion). Ac is
already stable and very usable so we may skip all those "freezing and
stabilizing" parts. Why not to put effort into Th? Because it will take
at least year (probably more) before it will be as stable as Ac is now.
Remaking Ac should take few months tops.

> I sense forthcoming PLD 2.5, 3.4, 4.3, 5.2, 6.1, so that everyone who
> fears upgreading to PLD 7.0 can keep up to date.

Is that bad to have new versions more often? Do we really want 3-4 years
gap between releases? "Always in developement" idea probably died so I
want at least speed up releasing new versions a bit. And no, there will
be no PLD 2.2.

> What's the point?

To have distro usable on production machines few months from now? Ac
will probably be out of date by this time and Th wouldn't be stable enough.

M.