Werewolf -> Sulphur -> <blank>? Sulphur is a <blank>, <NewName> is a <blank>

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Sat May 31 02:17:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, 30 May 2008 22:02:25 -0400
"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:

> Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:56:34 -0500
> > Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:
> >  
> > > > A little added twist here.  I'd like to give the Fedora Board a chance
> > > > at culling the list a little bit before sending on to Legal.  There were
> > > > a number of names that made it through the "is a" test and Legal that
> > > > might not have been the best ideas for naming a release.  Add to that
> > > > the fact that Red Hat has used outside Legal to do the name clearance
> > > > the last few times and that is a measurable cost both in time and money.
> > > > The more names we ask to clear the more expensive and longer the delay
> > > > will be before we have a set to vote upon.  So I am asking the Fedora
> > > > Board to review the list of names that Josh has collected and remove any
> > > > they deem not acceptable as a Fedora release name before handing it to
> > > > Legal.
> > > > 
> > > > (Note, I haven't yet directly talked to the board about this, so I'm
> > > > just assuming that they'll be on... board... with this.)
> > > 
> > > Seems a very reasonable request.  The Board doesn't want to limit
> > > people's brainstorming, but I can see value in culling the list that's
> > > sent out for trademark research.
> > 
> > OK.  So the current list I have is at:
> > 
> > http://jwboyer.fedorapeople.org/
> 
> Seeing what the relationship is would be nice.

Fortunately they are all archived in the fedora-devel list.  You'll get
the relationship documented in the release page when the winner is
picked.

josh




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