Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

[Timothy Murphy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>> I hear that hibernate is
>> no longer supported in latest releases/updates because it has become too
>> complicated to support.....I do not know if this is true, but if so, I
>> hope very much that F does not go that route.....
> 
> It probably will and has been suggested.  Hibernate is poorly supported
> by upstream and has no maintainer.  It has data corruption bugs (one of
> which I ran into quite recently).  So for data safety, it is better to
> never use it.

Not sure what this has to do with naming Fedora releases,
but I very much hope that hibernate is not removed,
as I use it all the time without problem,
and find it extremely useful.

As far as I can see, the suggestion not to support hibernation
has more or less been dropped:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781749>
Contrary to the statement that hibernate is poorly supported,
there seem to have been a large number of people working on the problem,
and there are several claims that it has been resolved.

Also, as far as I can see the only cases of data corruption reported
involved the i915 module,
so it would seem more logical just to warn users of that module
not to hibernate (if the problem has not been resolved, as I believe it 
has).



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