Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 08:43 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> it has often come up lately that since the "Core" will be removed from
> Fedora as a name the currently used disttag of fcN needs to be
> adjusted. As long as people were discussing what Fedora will be named
> it was difficult to nail some acronym, but now the simple "Fedora"
> emerged (which is good IMO).
> 
> The problem is that the natural disttag of f7 is rpm-lesser that any
> fcN. There are two paths to take:
> 
> a) Don't care about upgrade paths through disttags, just rebuild
>    everything with a higher buildid (the part of the release before
>    the disttag) and you can pick any disttag you like.
> 
> b) Make sure any abbreviation used in the disttag for Fedora 7 and
>    above is higher than that of fc6 and below. I.e. find something
>    that is rpm-newer than "fc". "f" itself is lesser, capitalized
>    versions the same. If one want to stick with something that starts
>    with an "f" and has minimal characters one needs to play with "fd"
>    to "fz". Out of them two seem to make sense acronym-wise (perhaps
>    other's are also making sense, speak up if you spot one!):

c) leave it as .fcN and don't worry about it?

Changing it doesn't fix any real problem we are currently having or are
about to have, and really just invites people to debate what color the
bikeshed should be.

- ajax