Decision on Fedora Product branding: Fedora $PRODUCT 21 vs Fedora 21 $PRODUCT

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 21 14:39:25 UTC 2014



On 10/21/2014 09:36 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:28:16AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> A few specific comments that have been made on the Board ticket (to
>> avoid rehashing them).
>>
>> * "Fedora Server 21" sounds like we've had 21 releases of Fedora Server
>> and we certainly haven't.
>> * Should we start all of the Products at version 1 and say "built on the
>> Fedora 21 platform"?
>
> My opinion is that since we've decided on a unified lifecycle and
> release process for now, we should reflect that in the names, so:
>
>   Fedora 21 Cloud
>   Fedora 21 Server
>   Fedora 21 Workstation
>
> but that we should also allow unversioned naming:
>
>   Fedora Cloud
>   Fedora Server
>   Fedora Workstation
>
> In the future, if we have separated release cycles, I think separate
> numbering might make sense, with the "Built on the Fedora 21 platform"
> wording or similar. Possibily date-based schemes for the products —
> but I don't want to get the cart too far ahead of the horse on that.

^^^ This

 From my POV (the designer / branding person,) this is exactly the plan 
I support.

~m


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