Codenames and Ship Dates
If you look at some of the back-end structures of Group Policy Manager, you may notice some odd names. First off, most of the dll’s in the Program Files directory start with "Quest.Avalanche". Avalanche is the internal code name for the product. Like many software companies, we don’t necessarily know what the final product name is going to be when we start development. In addition, the dev team often doesn’t know what the version number will be at the beginning of a cycle. Therefore, we rely on code names for versions as well. On the Avalanche team, we use the names of mountains. Here is the list of code names we’ve used over the last four years:
- 1.0 - Citadel Hill (named retroactively) - Sept, 2004
- 2.0 - Wentworth - May, 2005
- 2.5 - Matterhorn - Nov, 2005
- 3.0 - Stoneham - June, 2006
- 3.1 - Fuji - Dec, 2006
- 4.0 - Nevado - Dec, 2007
- 4.1 Mont-Blanc - April, 2008
Given that development began in June 2004, that works out to seven releases over a period of 46 months - or about one release every 6.5 months.
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