The Future of release names

Kévin Raymond shaiton at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 9 19:22:29 UTC 2012


Le 9 mai 2012 21:00, "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> On 9 May 2012 12:56, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 01:39 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >>> At the last Board Meeting, the Board looked at the poll results asking
> >>> whether people felt like continuing to name releases.  The results
seemed
> >>> to show that many people do like having a name associated with Fedora
> >>> releases.  However, the discussion before and after has shown there is
> >>> a desire to improve upon the current method of selecting the names.
> >>
> >> I may have missed it, but are there actual numbers of the poll results,
> >> beyond 'many people do like' ?
> >
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/poll-rel-names
> >
> > 550 Keep release names (possibly changing how they're chosen)
> >
> > 384 Stop having release names
> >
>
> My guess is that if the poll had been split into a 3 way the first
> choice would have been "split" leading to the conclusion that Stop
> having release names was more wanted than Keep Release Names or
> "Change How Release Names Are Chosen".
>

The objective was to help the board and not to directly take the poll
result as the final decision.

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