RFE: Retire Fedora Core 4 only _after_ FC6 has been released.

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Thu Jan 19 19:22:29 UTC 2006


On 01/19/2006 02:10 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Not confusing but not attractive either. For everybody who doesnt 
> understand the meaning behind the black diamond reference, it is still a 
> attractive name. If people miss out all the references to indicate that 
> its a test release with the announcements, anaconda etc they are really 
> being naive...


Well, do we really want to sound too attractive?  Its effectively beta 
quality software.  People need to know that up front (before wasting 
time downloading it).  The people that don't mind beta test software 
will get it.  If we attract more than that, we run the risk of others 
thinking that we suck because we're rough around the edges and then they 
un-install it and never look back, spouting out curses directed our way 
all the while.  The Mozilla guys get around this by removing all 
branding from the software until its a final release.  We don't really 
want to do that, I don't think...

If we really want to go the naming route, I'd spend more time figuring 
out cool names for the final releases.




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