Rawhide plans

Eric Griffith egriffith92 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 17:18:42 UTC 2015


Rawhide rebrand:

Something akin to openSUSE's "Tumbleweed" name.

Maybe reuse the "Fedora.Next" name? Something that implies its rolling
release / pre-release. Fedora Testing? For some reason "Fedora Tophat" just
popped into my head as a pun on hats and being "ontop" of updates.
On Aug 19, 2015 1:00 PM, "Zach Villers" <greyman at greyman.info> wrote:

>
> ---- On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:18:04 -0400 *Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com
> <kevin at scrye.com>>* wrote ----
>
> Greetings.
>
> We had some nice discussions about rawhide in my friday workshop at
> flock. I thought I would post here to get input from folks not there,
> and also allow people who were there to comment more now that it's not
> after 5pm on a friday of the 3rd day of flock. ;)
>
> <snip>
>
> Finally there was mention of the baggage associated with the name
> "rawhide". To this day I see people telling others that "rawhide will
> eat your babies" or "rawhide is a methlab and will blow up in your face
> every day".
>
>
> As a relative newcomer (using Fedora since ~F20) the name rawhide does
> seem to have some implied broken-ness, if that's a word. I would be in
> favor of a name change/rebrand that makes it a little more approachable.
>
>
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