Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.
Máirín Duffy
duffy at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 19 14:13:00 UTC 2012
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 23:15 -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> While I agree with your reasoning, my impression is that Fedora 17 is
> the exception rather than the rule, and in general it doesn't even come
> close to the pervasiveness of many other distros' code names. Are there
> really that many people out there who still remember Fedora 14's, for
> instance? I used that release nearly every day for a year and I still
> had to look it up, but I can list every Ubuntu code name even though
> I've never even used the distro before. It doesn't seem particularly
> fair to generalize based only on recent experiences, especially when
> said experiences seem to be primarily due to the added attention we got
> from choosing a name that is much more silly than most.
>
> Of course if I'm completely out of touch with reality then I could
> really use a nice, healthy dose of it. 8^)
I think recall of Ubuntu codenames is helped by their alphabetical
order...
I am very much hoping F17 is the exception, not the rule, because I'm
really not crazy about cows.
~m
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