The Future of release names

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 9 May 2012 12:56, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 01:39 -0700, 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.
>>
>> I may have missed it, but are there actual numbers of the poll results,
>> beyond 'many people do like' ?
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/results/poll-rel-names
>
> 550 Keep release names (possibly changing how they're chosen)
>
> 384 Stop having release names
>

My guess is that if the poll had been split into a 3 way the first
choice would have been "split" leading to the conclusion that Stop
having release names was more wanted than Keep Release Names or
"Change How Release Names Are Chosen".


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