F20 release name election?

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

You forgot the third camp, who want their release names without punctuation
so it doesn't break a decade of configuration scripting. Releases need
punctuation and non-7-bit ASCII in their names like goldfish need martinis.


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>
> wrote:
> >> *smack own forehead* I like that better than the other options also.
> For me, one extra point for Vidalia onion over "20".
> >>
> >> Heck I like "Crazy Train" based on a recent Matthew Miller assertion.
> >>
> >> Assuming there can be no late add ins though, the overwhelmingly
> obvious correct answer is Heisenbug. I attract more Heisenbugs than anyone
> I know. It's funny. It's true, they totally exist. And (sorry!) all the
> other options are snoozers. Now, had it been "Santa's reindeer" that might
> have made it a *little* less obvious, what the correct answer is.
> >
> >
> > How about no release name, just this one time. In his honor? I love
> > release names, and while I didn't know Seth very well personally,
> > probably the main reason I use Fedora/RHEL/CentOS is because of yum.
> > He deserves the honor in my opinion. The choices up there are lame.
>
> The choices are what the community came up with.  At this point, that
> is what we have to chose from.
>
> > If i I had to choose I guess I'd vote for Santa Claus but this is
> ridiculous.
>
> I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but there are essentially two camps
> right now.  Those that don't care about release names one bit (like
> me), and those that do.  If those that do care want better names,
> they'll need to work harder at creating meaningful suggestions.
>
> The Board has an open ticket on the naming process.  We're working
> through it now, but "no release names" isn't an immediate option
> because the last time we proposed that the community vote showed names
> were still desired.  Hopefully we'll resolve the ticket shortly and
> explain how naming needs to work in the future.
>
> > With all due respect can someone please explain to me how this release
> > is "dedicated" to Mr. Vidal?
>
> It will be dedicated in the release announcement.  Perhaps someone
> might add something to the download page on the website as well.
>
> josh
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