fun with naming
David Barzilay
barzilay at redhat.com
Thu Nov 30 16:56:40 UTC 2006
What about "Fedora Pack"?
Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
>
> Sigh.
>
> We're talking about a *very specific problem*: naming the Universe of
> Packages Build by the Fedora Project.
>
> "The Fedora Project" is the umbrella for everything that Fedora does.
>
> "Fedora" is a brand name that is attached to things that say "this is
> sponsored by the Fedora community".
>
> We need a way to say "this entity is a collection of all the packages
> that can be used to build distributions based on Fedora." And it
> can't just be "Fedora", and it can't be "Fedora Linux".
>
> "Fedora Universe" is close, but problematic for a couple of reasons.
> "Fedora Star" is maybe too clever.
>
> But again: it's about the packages. Hell, maybe it's just "the Fedora
> Packaging Project". Sometimes it's best to call it what it is.
>
> --g
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Alex Maier wrote:
>
>> What happened to the "Fedora Project"?
>> "Project" can include any number of things -- a bunch of packages, among
>> other things.
>>
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