Fedora naming proposal

[Zoltan Hoppar]

Lynn +1

Thank you,

Zoltan

2012/7/30 Lynn Dixon <boodaddy at gmail.com>:
> 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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