What will happen when the Code Names of the Ubuntu releases get to Z
Astonishing Antelope
As questions go - this pretty much will be a decision made by Mark Shuttleworth himself.
Maybe we could start doubling the initial like in Aalenian Aal or Aalenian Aardvark We could restart using flowers or plants instead of animals. e. g. Apologetic Anemone For release 17.10 i suggest Ambitious Aye Aye Maybe: Awesome Alebrije? I like the idea of using plants next. Or perhaps rocks/minerals.
Thus as you have indicated we are in the realms of speculation.
On the link below - the wrap around to A is described up to F - Flying Fox, etc., i.e., Ubuntu 20.04
What is beyond that - happy speculating.
Useful link:
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
It could just follow ASCII, and ultimately Unicode, order.
- ...
- Xenophobic Xenopus
- Yawning Yak
- Zealous Zebra
- [lumsy [aribou
- \ashful \ackslash
- ]ashing ]oberman
- ...
- ಠ ಠ
- ...
This may eventually require genetic engineering to breed new animals with appropriate names.
Artful Aardvark
That gets a lot tougher after AA.
But seriously, there are plenty of other verbs, adjectives and animals for each letter, so I expect it stay the same for 17.10.
And remember that is a long time (that's like a hundred years in Internet years) so Ubuntu might be doing something completely different by then.
Note: I look forward to you accepting (or down-voting) this in ~60 months time. Puts it on his calendar!