Disttag for Fedora 7 and beyond

[Tim Jackson]

Josh Boyer wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:45 +0000, Tim Jackson wrote:
>> Christian Iseli wrote:
>>> How about we just stay with fc7, and think of it as
>>> Fedora, collection 7 ?
>> Definitely the simplest solution so far :)
>> This would save a lot of hassle.
> 
> Why?
[...]
> What hassle am I missing?

- possible confusion since the .fcX disttag is used in *many* other
  repos (please no flamewars about how FP should just completely ignore
  the existence of anything other than The One True Official Repo. This
  may or may not be a sensible approach, but it has no bearing on this
  situation)

- hassle for other repos which either all have to fall into line
  (=change all their stuff too) or risk being confusing (see above re:
  flamewars)

- hassle for anyone that has personal scripts that do stuff, and have
  .fcX hardcoded in them. (I do, and I bet there are thousands out
  there)

- possible hassle for any other third party systems (RPM search sites
  maybe?) that may use the presence of an "fc" disttag in their
  processing somehow.

- hassle when people forget the change and do typos. e.g. a CVS admin
  creating FC-8 instead of FP-8 for example. (OK, maybe that's scripted
  in the Fedora dist system, but I'm willing to bet that if the disttag
  changes, someone, somewhere will cause grief by forgetting the change)

Whilst it's hardly earth-shattering, and we'll all live with it, it just
seems a bit pointless - like change for change's sake. Someone's come up
with a plausible and meaningful revised term that still uses "FC" so
given that, surely everyone's time would be better spent on technical
stuff rather than changing the letter "C" to "P" (or whatever) in
various places?

Tim