recycling "Fedora Insight" name?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed May 6 20:45:43 UTC 2015


On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 01:25:53PM -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> On 05/05/2015 12:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > I'm still unsure about "news", because I'm afraid that people will
> > think that it's just another announce-list (or devel-announce). A lot
> > of the things I anticipate posting would be kind of "pre-news" — this
> > is being worked on (and maybe needs input), rather than this was
> > _done_. Plus, I want somewhere to post articles along the lines of
> > <http://fedoramagazine.org/lets-talk-about-fedora-project-objectives/>,
> > which isn't news at all.
> > 
> > I'm happy to drop "insight", though, if people aren't fond of it, or
> > worse, have a negative association — I don't really have any
> > association with it _at all_, other than I know many of you were
> > working on it and then it morphed into the Magazine instead.
> 
> I guess I'm unfamiliar w/the Insight history. News seems fine, and "what
> we're doing / working on that will soon affect you" does fit under the
> "news" category.

I don't think it's as much a negative association per se as a name
with history attached that would confuse people.  It was a project
that fizzled, so to reuse the name would be confusing about how this
new site came about.  -1 Insight for me too.

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