Cast your vote for the Fedora 10 Codename!

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 00:16:25 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:10 PM, brad longo <Bl0ngo067 at aim.com> wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:23 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 21:40 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder if we'll ever get big enough that the art team could make a
>>>>> theme
>>>>> for each proposed name and we could vote on that as part of the name
>>>>> selection... it'd be wicked awesome :)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I more wonder why the art team feels the need to use the nick-name of
>>>> the distro as a basis for the artwork.. surely they are an independent
>>>> minded bunch, and it would allows to just choose names that we like
>>>> instead of ones with meaningful artwork..
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, we really have not linked directly the name and the graphics so
>>> far... it was an attempt in F9 but the graphic with Sulphur crystal was
>>> dropped at the last minute.
>>>
>>> It was a thought that it may be cool if we can link the two and sometime
>>> is useful to have a starting point when developing some graphics.
>>>
>>
>> And that method would have stood a better chance this time if it hadn't
>> taken so long to get names vetted through Legal.  We're cleaning up that
>> process for the next release.  I drafted something to use as a starting
>> point:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Naming_Guidelines
>>
>
> According to the pattern the nth release must be related to the n+1 release.
>  So what do werewolves and sulphur have in common?

Both react violently to silver.

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Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
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