just Fedora [RFC]
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 6 21:14:07 UTC 2006
Karsten Wade wrote:
> Based on conversations on fedora-advisory-board and the state of the
> future, I propose we start using the word "Fedora" in all our
> documentation to refer to:
>
> * The distribution itself
> * The set of packages
> * The project
>
> For the project case, I think a good style is this:
>
> "For the first instance of referring to the formal project, use 'Fedora
> Project' to set the context, then use 'Fedora' afterward to refer back
> to the project. If writing about both the project and the distribution,
> use 'Fedora Project' in all cases, referring to the distribution as
> 'Fedora'."
>
> We definitely want to stop using 'Fedora Core' for documentation in the
> future. Although we still need to identify the difference between
> 'Core' and 'Extras' in FC6 documentation, we can start to use 'Fedora'
> in place of 'Fedora Core' now to save us the work of changing it later.
>
> When things are settled around "The server version of Fedora is called
> Fedora Foo, and the desktop live-CD is called Fedora Bar," then we'll
> use those terms. However, since the different flavors do not exist yet,
> we don't need to start worrying about them. :)
>
> - Karsten, who hates search and replace in the Wiki
I already started doing this in the documentation that I am working
with. I think it makes better sense to not marginalize Fedora Extras
unncessarily even in the current release process
Rahul
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