Fedora naming proposal based on Periodic Table of Elements

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Máirín Duffy wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 11:44 -0500, inode0 wrote:
>>> http://lwn.net/Articles/488900/
>>
>> I don't really see this article as evidence the media agrees with
>> anything. It is an article reporting on what was happening at the time
>> within Fedora. Most of the comments aren't even on topic and the ones
>> that are seem pretty mild to my ears.
>
> Here's some examples of media and comments from outside the Fedora
> community:
>
> "Fedora 17 arrived on Tuesday following a three-week delay. Nicknamed
> Beefy Miracle, the Fedora Project promised 'over and under-the-bun
> improvements that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing
> state of free software.' That's a bold claim for a package with such a
> ridiculous name. "
> Gavin Clarke, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/30/fedora_17_review/
>
> "I tend to think that name is nearly as bad as "Beefy Miracle" (the
> codename Fedora 17 has). And I think the link between the two (¹) is
> nearly as dubious as the one between F16 and F17 :-/ I got the feeling
> the codenames for Fedora(²) (and RHL) that were selected by some Red Hat
> engineers internally tended to be better more often than those that got
> selected by Fedora contributors in a vote. I wonder if Fedora should get
> (back?) to a model where a few experienced and a few new contributors
> (those that do a lot of work) get to suggest names (with input from the
> community) and decide the final one when legal gave their blessing to a
> few. Sure, that is not a democratic way, but hey, there is a reasons why
> meritocratic is used in so many open source projects."
> Thorsten Leemhuis,
> https://plus.google.com/107616711159256259828/posts/Nxc6kH4UCod
>
> "I suggest that the name of Fedora 19 be "Fedora 19", and that Red Hat
> give half of the money this proposal saves them in legal bills to
> charity and the other half to their stockholders. If a code name is
> required, "Nineteen" will do. "
> "Exactly. Codenames are nice if you have good marketing and people
> connect the product with the name. Fedora does not do that. So Red hat
> should just remove the silly names. "
> http://lwn.net/Articles/510090/





All of the above are valid, imo.

All after that fall into the 'internet is full of jerks in comments' and 
should be ignored.

-sv