fedora release name problem

[Adam Williamson]

On 19/03/13 08:30 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> On 19 Mar 2013 14:33, <John.Florian at dart.biz
> <mailto:John.Florian at dart.biz>> wrote:
>  >
>  > > From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com
> <mailto:rjones at redhat.com>>
>  > >
>  > > An interesting question is:  Why don't we try out the new release name
>  > > early on in Rawhide.  ie. we would change the release name now to
>  > > whatever F20 is going to be + " (Rawhide)".  Wouldn't that give us a
>  > > lot more time to test and fix?
>  >
>  > That seems like a great idea ... and it also adds in a test for
> handling parenthesis.  I can't imagine how they'd pose a problem, but
> clearly nobody foresaw this train coming either.
>
> Err the fedora 19 voting for names started around the release of F18
> alpha. Its been set as this for around 6 months already, I suspect its
> only become an issue with people starting to create images etc.

It isn't applied anywhere till branch. Rawhide always uses the release 
name 'Rawhide'. Even though it's voted on a long way ahead of time, the 
new release name is only applied in the tree at branch time. Several 
people were using Rawhide considerably in advance of branching - 
including myself - and the problems showed up right when we branched and 
the new fedora-release package was rolled.
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