Fedora naming proposal

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Jul 30 14:42:22 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> On 7/30/2012 9:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > The proposal, if it were adopted, would start at Fedora 19 at
> > earliest.
> >
> We will still need to do legal clearance on the names, which will
> screw
> up the numbering if you run into one that isn't available.  It's also
> not something we can do very far in advance - the trademark registers
> change all the time, so we need to do our clearances at a point in
> time
> that is relatively close to when we actually begin to use the name.

Yep, that's not good idea to match release number to atomic number
 as I'd say a lot are clear (nobody is going to call the product 
Ununbium) but Cobalt - cool name! Tungsten is already used...). So it
will lead to gaps and inconsistency.

R.

> 
> Pam
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