Fedora naming proposal based on Periodic Table of Elements

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:04:42PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 18:14 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Just before the release of Fedora 17 there was a board ticket opened
> > by someone in the Fedora Hindu community about the use of beef in the
> > naming due to the cow being sacred. They never bothered to bring it up
> > long before that even though it had been public for months and what's
> > more the number of people that vote for a release name isn't that high
> > and the difference in voting between first and second wasn't a huge
> > number and if it was such a big problem for the user base it wouldn't
> > have taken much effort to gather together a group of people and vote
> > against it. From memory the person that opened the ticket didn't even
> > care enough to answer a number of questions asked of them.
> 
> He followed up with you guys a number of times. I watched it on the
> list.
> 
> I will say I was a supporter of Beefy Miracle, but there were times went
> it went much too far. For example, I can't participate in Fedora events
> when hot dogs are being handed out, because I can't eat them - I've
> stood manning a Fedora booth with the strong smell of hot dogs cooking
> right in front of me. (Seriously unpleasant for a vegetarian.) 
> 
> It's not offensive IMHO, but it is childish and annoying. Look at the
> Fedora 19 proposals so far. The vast majority are juvenile. Prime Rib?
> Elastic Horses? Really???
> 
> > I personally like the current process, but if there is enough
> > consensus for it to be changed whether it be to another naming scheme
> > or no scheme at all I'm not going to go else where but nobody has
> > actually stepped up to run the process and work work with the board to
> > actually get things moving forward which is why we're back in having
> > this conversation again and nothing has happened. It seems people care
> > enough to talk about it on mailing lists but not enough to change the
> > process.
> 
> I created and came up with the majority of the suggestions on the
> theming process wiki page:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Suggestions_for_Fedora_Codename_Theme
> 
> I have been waiting for months for the board to set up an election for
> this as asked for. We got one election which was poorly put together and
> led to no solid conclusions since there were only two options, not the
> three that had been asked for: "Keep a codename" vs "Don't keep a
> codename" instead of "Keep the process as-is", "Get a better one", "No
> codenames." 
> 
> We're not simply whining about it, a bunch of us have been putting
> together these suggestions and looking to the board for guidance for
> quite some time now.
> 
AFAIK, the Board has never agreed to an election for the things on that
page.

From the Board's POV we've been waiting for a followup meeting from the
first one.

-Toshio
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