doc: add codenames through to Node.js 34 (2030) #942
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| * Hydrogen (18.x 2022) | |||
| * Iron (20.x 2023) | |||
| * Jod (22.x 2024) | |||
| * Krypton (24.x 2025) | |||
| * Lithium (26.x 2026) | |||
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Alternatives:
- Lanthanum
- Lawrencium
- Lead
- Livermorium
- Lutetium
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Node.js 26.x Lead - sounds cool 😄
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I don't think Lead has a good connotation though:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead#Modern_era
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
Personally I'd prefer to stick with Lithium as proposed here.
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I don't think Lead has a good connotation though:
Hey, I happened to come across this discussion by chance and agree with your point so it's worth mentioning, although you may already be aware, that Lithium has also recently come under increased scrutiny, primarily due to:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Environmental_issues
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Human_rights_issues
If bad connotations are your concern! :)
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Lithium is also used as a medication for bipolar disorder. Perhaps not the connotation we are hoping for
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| * Hydrogen (18.x 2022) | |||
| * Iron (20.x 2023) | |||
| * Jod (22.x 2024) | |||
| * Krypton (24.x 2025) | |||
| * Lithium (26.x 2026) | |||
| * Magnesium (28.x 2027) | |||
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Alternatives:
- Manganese
- Meitnerium
- Mendelevium
- Mercury
- Molybdenum
- Moscovium
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I'd suggest not picking "mercury" for the letter "m" -- one potential pick for the letter "q" is "quicksilver", which is an alternative name for "mercury". I may have intentionally stopped short of "q" in this PR 🙂.
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If 26.x can be Lead, 28.x could be Molybdenum, which means "lead-like" according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_element_name_etymologies
| * Krypton (24.x 2025) | ||
| * Lithium (26.x 2026) | ||
| * Magnesium (28.x 2027) | ||
| * Neon (30.x 2028) |
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Alternatives:
- Neodymium
- Neptunium
- Nickel
- Nihonium
- Niobium
- Nitrogen
- Nobelium
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Nitrogen should be a reminder of "oxygen" release, so it would be cool, it should be used for relase with perf improvement to streamline the performance (nitro boosting)
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It can't be a reminder as it comes first 🙂.
FWIW Neon is a noble gas, similar to Argon and Krypton. It's also half as many characters (four instead of eight) as Nitrogen 🙂.
| * Lithium (26.x 2026) | ||
| * Magnesium (28.x 2027) | ||
| * Neon (30.x 2028) | ||
| * Oxygen (32.x 2029) |
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Alternatives:
- Oganesson
- Osmium
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I think oxygen is a clear choice here.
| * Magnesium (28.x 2027) | ||
| * Neon (30.x 2028) | ||
| * Oxygen (32.x 2029) | ||
| * Platinum (34.x 2030) |
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Alternatives:
- Palladium
- Phosphorus
- Plutonium
- Polonium
- Potassium
- Praseodymium
- Promethium
- Protactinium
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Going ahead and merging this. In this weeks' Release Working Group meeting we decided that this can be merged and further discussions can happen in new pull requests -- a codename for a future Node.js LTS release that has not been released yet can be changed ahead of time. The first release affected by the changes in this PR is next year (2025) so we have plenty of time if someone really objects to any of the picks. |
Extend codenames for a further six releases through to Node.js 34, which takes us to 2030.
By convention, all of our long term support codenames have been chemical elements.
No immediate rush to land this (we have Jod for Node.js 22 next year). I'll leave some alternative suggestions (existing elements) as in-line reviews.