You forgot the third camp, who want their release names without punctuation so it doesn't break a decade of configuration scripting. Releases need punctuation and non-7-bit ASCII in their names like goldfish need martinis.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org>wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> > wrote: > >> *smack own forehead* I like that better than the other options also. > For me, one extra point for Vidalia onion over "20". > >> > >> Heck I like "Crazy Train" based on a recent Matthew Miller assertion. > >> > >> Assuming there can be no late add ins though, the overwhelmingly > obvious correct answer is Heisenbug. I attract more Heisenbugs than anyone > I know. It's funny. It's true, they totally exist. And (sorry!) all the > other options are snoozers. Now, had it been "Santa's reindeer" that might > have made it a *little* less obvious, what the correct answer is. > > > > > > How about no release name, just this one time. In his honor? I love > > release names, and while I didn't know Seth very well personally, > > probably the main reason I use Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is because of yum. > > He deserves the honor in my opinion. The choices up there are lame. > > The choices are what the community came up with. At this point, that > is what we have to chose from. > > > If i I had to choose I guess I'd vote for Santa Claus but this is > ridiculous. > > I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but there are essentially two camps > right now. Those that don't care about release names one bit (like > me), and those that do. If those that do care want better names, > they'll need to work harder at creating meaningful suggestions. > > The Board has an open ticket on the naming process. We're working > through it now, but "no release names" isn't an immediate option > because the last time we proposed that the community vote showed names > were still desired. Hopefully we'll resolve the ticket shortly and > explain how naming needs to work in the future. > > > With all due respect can someone please explain to me how this release > > is "dedicated" to Mr. Vidal? > > It will be dedicated in the release announcement. Perhaps someone > might add something to the download page on the website as well. > > josh > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >
-- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
