On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 08:04:01PM -0500, Christopher wrote: > I get the idea that it's useful to draw a distinction between the > project and the product, and agree with the goal. The upstream naming > preference wasn't really my point in those examples, though. My > examples were an attempt to show that the short name (colloquial name, > even if not the "official" name) often refers to the product, and the > community name is the longer of the two (often with the community > being named after the product, not the other way around). I was also > attempting to emphasize that there's already a distinction made > between Fedora and the Fedora Project that people are already using > that seems to be sufficient, in the same way that those other > projects/communities have a distinction.
This is all fine; I'm not going to fight against colloquial use. This change is about one aspect of our own formal use. > Clarity can be achieved by context, the use of improper nouns, and > clear writing style (descriptive thinking). I think people put too > much emphasis in names to communicate meaning (nominative thinking). > Adding "Linux" doesn't really give any clarity, since it's implied > already... and... you can already append it to descriptively add > clarity without changing the name. /etc/os-release doesn't give much room for context like that. I mean, if it helps, you can think of it as us appending Linux descriptively to add clarity? > It doesn't matter to me much. I have expressed my opinion, but am > happy to go with the flow. :) And I do appreciate it. :) -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
