Renaming F16 codename to "Ritchie"

[Emilio Lopez]

What about calling Fedora 18 Ritchie?

emiliollbb

On 10/14/11, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:22:06PM -0500, inode0 wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Tim Burke <tburke at redhat.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Great concept!
>> > > Given that its too disruptive for F16, what about considering it
>> > > for F17
>> > > instead. Do people think that the prominence of a release name,
>> > > albeit
>> > > delayed, is more of a commemoration than an honorarium in
>> > > relnotes/announcement?
>> >
>> > I would really like to see whatever we do done for F16 to be
>> > timely.
>> > There really isn't any requirement that the theming match the
>> > release
>> > name, just a tradition. If it isn't too late to just change the
>> > release name within F16 I certainly would not object to doing that,
>> > although I think a public statement via the release announcement
>> > would
>> > be nice too as that would, I hope, keep Ritchie's memory in the
>> > public
>> > eye and remind people of his importance to our community.
>> >
>> > Perhaps the board could call a quick open forum to discuss this, so
>> > we
>> > could find out what our options really are at this stage of the F16
>> > cycle?
>> >
>> Probably also needs to get passed to Legal.  I know the Board has
>> a pre-filter that's roughly "no living famous people".. Not sure with
>> someone recently deceased if they'll worry about next of kin taking
>> offense
>> or something.
>
> Toshio, that's my main concern - don't understand me wrong, without
> Dennis Ritchie, we wouldn't be here, there wouldn't be Fedora etc.,
> but after S. J. passed away, KHL Lokomotiv jet crash (you should
> see squares in main cities full of crying people), I became somehow
> immune to this fight for who's mourning more :( Please, let's to
> it in more piet way.
>
> Wp does not have to be tied to code name, in case we go with Ritchie
> codename, I'd skip Verne as F16 is going to be branded in Verne
> style.
>
> Jaroslav
>
>> -Toshio
>>
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