You forgot the first one, “Callisto” ,

http://www.eclipse.org/callisto/

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I hate those names — especially Galileo/Ganymede *alway* confuses me. Using the same two characters at the beginning ‘Ga’ is very confusing.

All other names line up nicely in alphabetic order:

That’s nice:
C-E-G-H
BUT
C-E-Gan-Gal-H

Galileo was really a bad name

Michael

I hate those names — especially Galileo/Ganymede *alway* confuses me. Using the same two characters at the beginning ‘Ga’ is very confusing.

All other names line up nicely in alphabetic order:

That’s nice:
C-E-G-H
BUT
C-E-Gan-Gal-H
Galileo was really a bad name

Michael

truth is that no any eclipse developer ever looks back once his bits got released. ok, maybe some look one release back, but two is reallly ancient. there are some folks at ibm and few other companies who have to deal with older releases for maintenance reasons, but with no chance to talk like humans with alwaystoobusy committers. sorry.

The Planning Council is responsible for choosing the release name each year. Last year, we chose Helios after a vetting process. The Planning Council also decided to make the release names monotonic from now on so the next release after Helios will start with I… J… and so on. That should help a bit.

If you have any ideas on how to improve things, feel free to let the council now via its mailing list.

Well, these are all names of *moons* in our solar system, you know. And if, there is a moon between your current location and the Sun, then you are in a solar *eclipse* …

Apart from not sticking to a strict alphabetic order in the past, I think these names are perfectly fine. And they are, in fact, really easy to remember, too.

Kudos to the Planning Council and the projects on the release train for delivering on time – each year. For my taste, your nice table above is missing another column showing the number of projects releasing together each year.

Release Trains
Projects
Release Dates

Callisto
10
June 30 2006

Europa
21
June 29 2007

Ganymede
23
June 25 2008

Galileo
33
June 24 2009

Helios
?
June ? 2010

It’s simple to remember Galileo vs Ganymede, if you think that all three (Callisto, Europa, Ganymede) are Galilean moons
(Though, It be simpler if those three were ordered by diamiter, mass or distance from Jupiter)

Any ideas where the name Helios comes from (I suppose not from the sun itself)