Proposal request for ideas on naming Fedora releases.

[Carl Trieloff]

On 07/19/2012 10:13 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> 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.

Personally I like memorable names, someone else to talk about and spread
the buzz with.

Carl.