Fedora naming proposal

[Lynn Dixon]

So, with that concern being valid, what if we used the Periodic Table of
Elements as a "selection pool" and we let the Fedora Community vote on
which element to choose for the next release name?  This gives us a large
pool of non-offending names to choose from, but still letting the community
choose which name to use.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com>wrote:

> ----- 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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