That has potential.  Another, albeit suboptimal idea would be simply 

Quid

as in

’S quid

as in “it’s squid”.  cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27S_Wonderful

Alternately just skip to R and when someone tasks about Q, we say “The first 
rule of Ceph is that we don’t talk about Q”.

— aad

> 
> How about the squid-headed alien species from Star Wars?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_(P%E2%80%93T)#Quarren
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 6:11 PM Sage Weil <sw...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> As we wrap up Octopus and kick of development for Pacific, now it seems
>> like a good idea to sort out what to call the Q release.
>> Traditionally/historically, these have always been names of cephalopod
>> species--usually the "common name", but occasionally a latin name
>> (infernalis).
>> 
>> Q is a bit of a challenge since there aren't many of either that start
>> with Q.  Nick Barcet found one: quebecoceras, an extinct genus of nautilus
>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebecoceras).
>> 
>> The only other Q cephalopod reference I could find was Squidward Q
>> Tentacles, a character (octopus, strangely) from Spongebob Squarepants,
>> and Yehuda figured out that the Q stands for Quincy.
>> 
>> So far that's it.  If you can find any other options, please catalog them
>> on the etherpad:
>> 
>>        https://pad.ceph.com/p/q
>> 
>> (or even get a head start on future releases.. they're always the
>> single-letter pads, e.g., https://pad.ceph.com/p/r).
>> 
>> sage
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