rawhide and Fedora QA [was Re: why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM]

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 10.06.2007 11:49, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 11:47:04PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> [...]
> The term rawhide stems from before Fedora (Core). During Fedora Core 1
> and later there was a marketing effort to rename it to development. So
> any rawhide references have been officially changed to development.
> 
> But rawhide is such a persistant name that it just doesn't fade away :)
> 
> Don't ask me why it was decided to not use this name anymore, maybe
> because it was derived from and resembles too much Red Hat
> ("Raw-Hide")? But people need a name for the next to come release, so
> rawhide is still used.
> 
> Maybe if instead of a generic name like "development" it would get a
> code name then people would really drop using the term rawhide. Or
> Fedora could just reembrace the term "rawhide" and use it more
> prominently in the wiki, as most developers use the term rawhide
> anyway on lists, irc etc.

+1 to that.

One alternative to the last para: We could do what Ubuntu does: give the
development tree the name of the next release when we are stating
developing the release.

CU
thl