The Future of release names

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Wed May 9 14:20:36 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> 
> Toshio,
> 
> I would be happy to participate in the meetings so I can provide
> insight into what may be more or less successful methodologies from
> a clearance perspective.

Hi Pam!
It's great you can join us as your legal advices are already part of 
name decision process. Thank you.
 
And Toshio, count with me - I should join you too as it started from
my connotation analysis thread...

R.

> Pam Chestek
> 
> On 5/9/2012 4:39 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> At the last Board Meeting, the Board looked at the poll results
> asking
> whether people felt like continuing to name releases.  The results
> seemed
> to show that many people do like having a name associated with Fedora
> releases.  However, the discussion before and after has shown there
> is
> a desire to improve upon the current method of selecting the names.
> 
> The Board decided that it would be worthwhile to come up with a new
> procedure for selecting the name for the Fedora 19 release and beyond
> to
> attempt to solve some of the issues that have been brought up.  The
> Board
> is looking for volunteers who would like to do two things:
> 
> (1) Answer the following questions:
> 
> * What benefits does the Project get from the current release naming
>   process?
> * What changes do people want to see in a revised process?
> 
> (2) Come up with at least one proposal and analyze it according to
> the
>     answers to the previous questions.
> 
> If anyone is interested in coming to a weekly meeting to work on
> this,
> please feel free to contact me.  If anyone would like to champion
> this,
> please contact me ASAP so I know whether there is someone else who's
> going
> to champion this or if I need to lead the effort.
> 
> I've put up a wiki page that tries to summarize the answers to the
> first two
> questions that I've seen circulated on the advisory-board mailing
> list and a
> link to the only proposal I currently know of (mizmo's proposal to
> use
> a single theme for all of the new Fedora releases).
> 
> Thanks,
> -Toshio _______________________________________________
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