Cast your vote for the Fedora 10 Codename!

brad longo Bl0ngo067 at aim.com
Fri Jul 25 00:10:41 UTC 2008


Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:23 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>   
>> Dave Airlie wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 21:40 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>>       
>>>> 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 :)
>>>>         
>>> I more wonder why the art team feels the need to use the nick-name of
>>> the distro as a basis for the artwork.. surely they are an independent
>>> minded bunch, and it would allows to just choose names that we like
>>> instead of ones with meaningful artwork..
>>>       
>> Well, we really have not linked directly the name and the graphics so 
>> far... it was an attempt in F9 but the graphic with Sulphur crystal was 
>> dropped at the last minute.
>>
>> It was a thought that it may be cool if we can link the two and sometime 
>> is useful to have a starting point when developing some graphics.
>>     
>
> And that method would have stood a better chance this time if it hadn't
> taken so long to get names vetted through Legal.  We're cleaning up that
> process for the next release.  I drafted something to use as a starting
> point:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Naming_Guidelines 
>
>   
According to the pattern the nth release must be related to the n+1 
release.  So what do werewolves and sulphur have in common? 

--Brad




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