Renaming F16 codename to "Ritchie"

Robyn Bergeron rbergero at redhat.com
Fri Oct 14 23:09:22 UTC 2011


On 10/14/2011 03:40 PM, inode0 wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Toshio Kuratomi<a.badger at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
> Giving this a bit more thought I'm not sure pursuing the release name
> is a good idea. While this name may or may not be acceptable to legal,
> what if we ever wanted to do this again? Would that name be acceptable
> to legal? This seems to introduce complications that may not be worth
> muddling though if we think doing something via the release
> announcement and release notes is appropriate and acceptable to
> everyone.
In general I feel like we, as a community, shouldn't put ourselves in 
the awkward position of having to decide who is worthy and who isn't on 
an ongoing basis.

I think doing something through the release announcement and notes is 
acceptable, appropriate, and timely.
> John
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