Fedora 18 Release name voting and Poll for whether to continue naming releases

Brendan Jones brendan.jones.it at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 02:46:04 UTC 2012


On 04/20/2012 05:00 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 04/19/2012 07:04 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> This cycle, the Board is also asking contributors to let us know if we
>> should continue to have release names for future Fedora releases. Even
>> though the interface is the same, this portion is intended to be a poll
>> rather than a straight up vote. The Fedora Board will look at the answers
>> to determine if enough contributors value continuing to create release
>> names
>> to make it worthwhile in the future. If it does seem desirable, the Board
>> will likely look into forming a working group to come up with a new
>> method
>> for creating release names for future releases.
>
> It would be nice to have a third option:
> -Change release names to release theme.
>
> We don't really need a name (IMO), but the theme adds a nice touch.

I fully agree. We need to help the design team out, and trying to tie it 
to the previous release is a bit overbearing in my opinion. What do you 
do with a beefy miracle, there's not much room to move.  Drop the name 
but lets vote on a theme


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