Rawhide plans

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/19/2015 06:59 PM, Zach Villers wrote:
>
> ---- On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:18:04 -0400 *Kevin Fenzi <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.

I do not see any sense in changing the name.

"rawhide" is a well established, well-known name, almost a 
trademark-like, for RH/CentOS/Fedora's "unstable" package set/repository.

Admitted, the name "rawhide" has some negative connotation, because of 
the permanent brokenness of its contents, but that's in the nature this 
repository. Changing the name won't change anything about this.

That said, renaming "rawhide", to me, doesn't serve anything useful 
purpose. It only causes confusion and - on the technical side - causes 
(avoidable) churn.

Ralf