fedora release name problem

[Jon Ciesla]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:47 AM, David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 23:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On 18/03/13 10:22 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:56:28PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:34 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:56:28 +0000
> > >>> Sérgio Basto <sergio at serjux.com> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Hi,
> > >>>> For the first time, Fedora release name have non-ascii and pelican
> > >>>> characters which
> > >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922433
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Could we consider change release name from "Schrödinger's Cat" to
> > >>>> "Schrodingers Cat" or other name that not have this additional
> > >>>> problem ?
> > >>>
> > >>> I'd rather we fix things to handle this case than paper it over by
> > >>> changing it.
> > >>
> > > +1
> > >
> > >> I would very much like that we paper it over right now, unless you
> > >> propose to discover and fix every single problem it causes by
> tomorrow,
> > >> when I want us to start rolling TC images.
> > >>
> > > If by right now you mean until we get TC out (or even until we get
> alpha
> > > out), I wouldn't be opposed to that.  These sort of bugs really are
> > > something that need to be fixed and this release name is a good
> candidate
> > > for doing so... but the time from alpha to beta is appropriate for
> fixing
> > > bugs so it's okay if we defer fixing them for a little while.
> > >
> > > -Toshio "who's been working on various iterations of a fix for this in
> the
> > > python3 package[1] for a few days" Kuratomi
> >
> > Well, look, my point is that sometimes our commitment to 'fixing things
> > the right way' appears to verge on bloody masochism.
> >
> > You want to set up a side project to spin some images with crazy release
> > names and see what breaks and fix that, then you know, go for it. But
> > I'm trying to ship an operating system that works here, and leaving
> > something we know is causing all kinds of problems in the problematic
> > state just so we can keep finding exciting new problems to fix does not
> > suffuse me with joy.
> >
> > If we have to compromise on just papering it over for Alpha, I mean,
> > _fine_. But seriously: sometimes papering it over is just the right
> > thing to do.
>
> (nods)
>
> If we were *really* masochistic, the release name would contain unicode
> code points from outside the BMP i.e. > 65535 e.g. the musical notation
> characters.
>
> I, for one, am not that masochistic.
>
> Dave
>
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It wouldn't be so bad.  Just have everything BuildRequires:  lilypond. . .

-J

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