> From: Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> > > On 19/03/13 08:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > On 19 Mar 2013 14:33, <john.flor...@dart.biz > > <mailto:john.flor...@dart.biz>> wrote: > > > > > > > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com > > <mailto:rjo...@redhat.com>> > > > > > > > > An interesting question is: Why don't we try out the new release name > > > > early on in Rawhide. ie. we would change the release name now to > > > > whatever F20 is going to be + " (Rawhide)". Wouldn't that give us a > > > > lot more time to test and fix? > > > > > > That seems like a great idea ... and it also adds in a test for > > handling parenthesis. I can't imagine how they'd pose a problem, but > > clearly nobody foresaw this train coming either. > > > > Err the fedora 19 voting for names started around the release of F18 > > alpha. Its been set as this for around 6 months already, I suspect its > > only become an issue with people starting to create images etc. > > It isn't applied anywhere till branch. Rawhide always uses the release > name 'Rawhide'. Even though it's voted on a long way ahead of time, the > new release name is only applied in the tree at branch time. Several > people were using Rawhide considerably in advance of branching - > including myself - and the problems showed up right when we branched and
> the new fedora-release package was rolled. Ah, that makes sense. I had no idea how feasible name + " (Rawhide)" would be, I just liked the idea. -- John Florian
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