fedora release name problem

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:14 -0400, John.Florian at dart.biz wrote:
> > From: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, that makes sense.  I had no idea how feasible name + " (Rawhide)"
> would be, I just liked the idea. 

It's an interesting idea, but I suspect it may break rather more stuff
than people expect :) Be neat to try though, and Rawhide is certainly
the place to break it.
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