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

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at znmeb.net
Tue Oct 21 19:47:52 UTC 2014


Fedora 21 Workstation
Fedora 21 Server
Fedora 21 Cloud

That makes it easy for us remixers - CompJournoStick 21 Workstation, for
example.



On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:28:16 -0400
> Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I raised a question with the Board a couple weeks ago[1] as to how we
> > should be branding the different releases. It's been clear that
> > different groups have different opinions on whether we should call
> > something Fedora Server 21 vs. Fedora 21 Server (and Workstation and
> > Cloud, of course).
> >
> > I was asked by the Board to get input from each of the working groups
> > as well as marketing and branding folks. I'm sending this to each of
> > these lists, but PLEASE keep all replies on the
> > devel at lists.fedoraproject.org list or it will be impossible to keep
> > track of the replies. (I've set the reply-to header on this email;
> > please try not to lose it).
> >
> > 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"?
> >
> > Anyway, we need to have a consistent branding decision made for the
> > release (and for the Ambassadors). So please come prepared to find a
> > consensus (not to win a fight).
> >
> >
> > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/11
>
> "Fedora 21 - Server" ?
>
> Simo.
>
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