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Hi Matt --

I know this really isn't a big deal, and I really don't want to be a dick about it, but in this age of Google I would really appreciate it if you'd change the name. I think if we codenamed Django 1.3 "Wordpress" you'd feel similarly, right? I really don't want this to turn into A Thing, so how about you just see this as a small favor for a fellow open source hacker and I owe you beer/whiskey/whatever?

Please feel free to get in touch personally if you want to talk further - I'm jacob@jacobian.org.

(I'm Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the lead Django devs.)

Am I the only one that finds it ludicrous that people are complaining about this? what exactly are the consequences of this that'll cripple everything?

Django is trademarked.

But "Reinhardt" is not, and that is what matters.

> what exactly are the consequences of this that'll cripple everything

More noise in web searches?

You think this is bad, you should have been here for the Firebird fiasco.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox#Early_Versions

You mean Phoenix? I mean Firebird? No I mean Firefox!

Oh, I remember why Phoenix got bumped as well. I started using it on the first release 0.1!

But don't forget, after Firebird, it was going to be called "Mozilla Firebird".

Oh, fun times!

As somebody who is a huge fan of the Quintette du Hot Club de France and a major Django Reinhardt fanatic, I was wondering if you'd both mind renaming your projects to something else and stop polluting my Gypsy Jazz searches. Just kidding. But seriously though.... (tongue firmly planted in cheek :-)

-python

:)

> if we codenamed Django 1.3 "Wordpress"

Can I just say that I, for one, would find that awesome? :)

it would be the first secure version of wordpress released

I cannot believe I am defending WordPress but wow people, it's just a release codename to make it more human and less of "just a number".

How many people know/remember the Windows release codenames or any other product for that matter?

It's not like its "WordPress Reinhardt" or even a product name.

Reinhardt is also a common name.

It's silly stuff like this that keeps me away from Django. The members of its community are too easily offended.

Wordpress names its releases after the last names of famous Jazz musicians. They apparently have done this for the past 7 releases. Nobody knew, nobody cared. We all just called it "Wordpress".

The only people who will call this release "Reinhardt" are the uber-techies who actually care about version names. Everyone else will just call it WordPress like they always have.

You guys are named "Django". Nobody is going to confuse you with WordPress. The uber-techies know better, and nobody else cares.

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