| 23 Dec 2025 |
 infinisil | And another one: Historically significant figures, like researchers, explorers, etc.
Could show off people that should be more well known for the cool things they did | 22:22:44 |
 Alyssa Ross | people in history can be a bit messy. brings morality issues into play a lot more than animals, galaxies, etc. | 22:24:49 |
 Scrumplex | Can't wait for Kuwubernetes but NixOS | 22:34:22 |
 Grimmauld (any/all) | In reply to @qyliss:fairydust.space
people in history can be a bit messy. brings morality issues into play a lot more than animals, galaxies, etc. Same for place names. Like, the only safe place name to pick would be places in international waters and the Antarctic. Once you start naming a release "Yellowstone" or something, things get really messy. | 22:44:39 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | I think there is a couple aspects to watch out for. I am not sure what the best answer is, but I'll list what I think is needed for a naming scheme | 22:47:51 |
 Sigmanificient | We are moving out of animals names? | 22:48:15 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) |
- Latin alphabet: a technical limitation, we want boot names to display it correctly. No Unicode.
- "Neutral" names. We want everyone to identify with a release, or at least not be alienated by a name.
- memorable names. Just a number is not super memorable. It works, but then we wouldn't need code names at all.
- clear ordering. Lexicographic ordering is good, because it is obvious. Distances of celestial bodies would not be immediately obvious.
| 22:50:51 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | At least that is my take. Animals tick all boxes. | 22:51:48 |
 dish [Fox/It/She] | what about minerals? whether metals or gems or rocks or something like that | 23:31:31 |
| Scrumplex | Also plants (and probably many other things)
But is there really a need to change anything? No matter what group of things we pick, we will have to roll over every 26 releases | 23:37:18 |
| Grimmauld (any/all) | Finding things for qxyz not yet burnt by Ubuntu isn't trivial, but I guess that issue is ten years away | 23:38:31 |
 hexa | the gulf of … no idea 😄 | 23:43:33 |
| hexa | or drop the names and instead throw in some silly trivia | 23:45:01 |
| hexa | https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3141/#:~:text=And%20now%20for%20something%20completely%20different | 23:45:03 |
| hexa | (nope, let's not do that) | 23:45:07 |
| infinisil | There's no need of course, but it's fun to switch things up every once in a while. We only have such an opportunity once every ~13 years :) | 23:51:00 |
 avocadoom | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
or drop the names and instead throw in some silly trivia Silly trivia unfortunately translates pretty poorly into release artwork 😅 | 23:54:11 |
| hexa | which is entirely optional, let's be honest | 23:54:25 |
| avocadoom | I mean, it's work saved | 23:54:44 |
| avocadoom | I don't complain | 23:54:50 |
| avocadoom | Though it can be pretty sick, looking at our last release artwork | 23:55:06 |
| 24 Dec 2025 |
| Scrumplex | I could see some pretty flowers that incorporate the NixOS logo | 00:41:32 |
| hexa | yeah, visually a good match | 00:54:29 |
 lennart | my private hostname system is going through this list, so yea :b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autonomous_areas_by_country | 03:52:54 |
| lennart | I like that idea | 03:53:30 |
 vivekanandan_ks | Redacted or Malformed Event | 05:20:36 |
| vivekanandan_ks | Redacted or Malformed Event | 05:21:11 |
| vivekanandan_ks | Quantum particles route is also there 💪 | 05:23:21 |
 tom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_with_etymologies_(A%E2%80%93C)#Genera maybe? | 07:56:45 |
| 24 Sep 2021 |
|  @grahamc:nixos.org set the history visibility to "world_readable". | 18:25:39 |
