On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Digimer <li...@alteeve.com> wrote: > On 10/13/2011 12:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Thursday 13 October 2011 15:41:24 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Fedora 17 name has already been voted upon. Fedora 18 codename > >> suggestions will be requested when Fedora 17 is about to be released > > > > I think it would be more appropriate to rename F16, rather than wait for > a > > whole year to pay respects to the man. Since Ritche was a key inventor of > both > > C and UNIX, I believe a case can be made to make an exception and rename > the > > first upcoming release, which will be F16. > > > > Rahul, can you present the case to the relevant people, maybe open a vote > on > > it so that everyone can formally state their opinion? > > > > My suggestion is the following: > > > > (1) Rename F16 to "Ritchie" (or "Dennis", whatever people like better), > > (2) Rename F17 to "Verne" (in order not to insult the great writer), > > (3) Rename F18 to "Beefy Miracle" (in order to keep the chain of "is a" > > naming). > > > > I think that is the least Fedora Community can do to pay respects to > Dennis > > Ritchie. Opinions? > > > > Best, :-) > > Marko > > F16 is more or less finished. To change it's name now would require > updating RPMs which, though it would be effectively a trivial change, > runs the risk on introducing bugs. > > Fedora 17 is much, much earlier into it's life cycle. It could be more > easily changed, from a technical perspective, but not likely from a > political structure. > > Having him honoured in the F18 release will still serve a core function; > It will trigger discussion, and thus remembrance, of his legacy for the > next year to come, at minimum. So for this reason, proposing F18's name > in his honour will be fitting and appropriate, I would think. > > -- > Digimer > E-Mail: digi...@alteeve.com > Freenode handle: digimer > Papers and Projects: http://alteeve.com > Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org > "At what point did we forget that the Space Shuttle was, essentially, > a program that strapped human beings to an explosion and tried to stab > through the sky with fire and math?" > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >
I should hope that we can change the name and remember Dennis Ritchie now...and not a year later, 2 releases later.... Fennix.....
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