The Future of release names

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 9 May 2012 12:04, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> On 05/09/2012 12:19 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Christoph Wickert
>>>>>
>>>>> * What benefits does the Project get from the current release naming
>>>>>   process?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      * A starting point for the artwork.
>>>
>>>
>>> Except when it isn't, like with F17 (and probably F18).
>>
>>
>> It is my understanding that the F17 artwork was indeed inspired by the name
>
> That's... a stretch.  If you aren't familiar with beefymiracle.org and
> have never seen the site before, you would be hard pressed to honestly
> admit that you see the artwork inspiration from the _name_ "Beefy
> Miracle".
>
> I believe the F17 artwork was essentially a last ditch effort to adhere
> to something that really wasn't themable aside from slapping a giant
> hot dog on the screen.  It wound up being rather tasteful (no pun
> intended) and well done, but "inspired" would be pushing it.
>

Well originally we didn't really have much in way of theming the
release with the code-name. That was an expectation made later when we
had some easy to theme codenames. Then we ran into a patch of hard to
do code-names (Sulphur, Cambridge, Constantine, Beefy Miracle,
Laughlin, Lovelock) where in the end designs were hard to come up with
at time.



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