Renaming F16 codename to "Ritchie"

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Thursday 13 October 2011 21:02:00 Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Based on a recent (today's) death of Dennis Ritchie, the man who
> > > invented both
> > > C and UNIX (along with Kernighan and Thompson, of course), I am
> > > proposing a
> > > way for the Fedora Community to pay respects to him, in the
> > > following way.
> > > 
> > > (1) To open a vote for the following change in the Fedora
> > > codenames:
> > >     * to rename the upcoming F16 release from "Verne" to "Ritchie",
> > >     * to rename the F17 release from "Beefy Miracle" to "Verne",
> > >     * to name the F18 release "Beefy Miracle".
> > > (2) To implement the decision reached by voting.
> > 
> > This is a lovely sentiment but I think it would prove difficult to
> > accomplish at this point in time and would be a little disruptive to
> > the artwork/codename theming that is already finished.
> > 
> > As an alternative I would suggest leaving the codenames as they are
> > but when we release F16 we do so in memory of Dennis Ritchie.
> 
> +1, it's too late for code name change but dedicate F16 to two
> awesome men - Jules Verne and Dennis Ritchie! One in code name,
> another one as dedication.

Ok, I do see the point about artwork. But I don't understand how is the 
release going to be dedicated exactly? I mean practically, is something going 
to be written somewhere, or otherwise how will most people know that F16 is 
dedicated to Ritchie?

If a codename is out of the picture, I'm out of practical ideas how to do it.

Best, :-)
Marko