Re: The Future of release names

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 09:36:56AM -0400, Brian Proffitt wrote:
>  Could you provide the link to that wiki page you referred to?
>   
Hmm... That would help wouldn't it? ;-)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Future_Release_Naming

-Toshio

>  Thanks,
>  Brian Proffitt
>  
>  On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com&gt; 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.
>  
>      The Board decided that it would be worthwhile to come up with a new
>      procedure for selecting the name for the Fedora 19 release and beyond to
>      attempt to solve some of the issues that have been brought up.  The Board
>      is looking for volunteers who would like to do two things:
>  
>      (1) Answer the following questions:
>  
>      * What benefits does the Project get from the current release naming
>       process?
>      * What changes do people want to see in a revised process?
>  
>      (2) Come up with at least one proposal and analyze it according to the
>         answers to the previous questions.
>  
>      If anyone is interested in coming to a weekly meeting to work on this,
>      please feel free to contact me.  If anyone would like to champion this,
>      please contact me ASAP so I know whether there is someone else who's going
>      to champion this or if I need to lead the effort.
>  
>      I've put up a wiki page that tries to summarize the answers to the first
>      two
>      questions that I've seen circulated on the advisory-board mailing list and
>      a
>      link to the only proposal I currently know of (mizmo's proposal to use
>      a single theme for all of the new Fedora releases).
>  
>      Thanks,
>      -Toshio
>  
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