Cast your vote for the Fedora 10 Codename!

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:21 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 21:20 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote:
> >> Josh Boyer wrote (to a bad address copied from a bad address in my
> >> original mail):
> >>
> >> > Just vote 0 for all of them.
> >>
> >> If I understand the voting system correctly, that's not equivalent because
> >> it means "no opinion" not "none of the above" or "none" [1]. I think under
> >> the current system with no quorum that if (hypothetically) everyone except
> >> one person wanted "none" and thus voted zero for everything, if one person
> >> voted "1" for "Stupidname" then "Stupidname" would win regardless of the
> >> clear contrary opinion of the majority.
> >>
> >
> > That'd be correct, though. B/c we don't care if you don't want a name.
> > We care about having a name for the distro.
> >
> > So a result of 'None' doesn't do anything for us. We want a release name
> > - hence why we have this.
> >
> > It's fine if you think it's useless, afaict, the board does not think
> > it's useless and it is somewhat amusing.
> >
>
> Well I would like to propose that we shift gears a bit.. the naming
> contest was moved up to help the art group figure out a visual theme..
> and I think that might be backwards.. how about the art group comes up
> with various visual themes.. that gets voted on and then we come up
> with a name that meets the chosen theme. [It would actually make for a
> new game ]
>

I wonder if we'll ever get big enough that the art team could make a theme
for each proposed name and we could vote on that as part of the name
selection... it'd be wicked awesome :)

         -Mike