> > Dear Board members and everyone else, > > I have just subscribed to this list in order to raise this question, > apologies > if I am breaking any list ettiquette. :-) > > Based on a recent (today's) death of Dennis Ritchie, the man who invented > both > C and UNIX (along with Kernighan and Thompson, of course), I am proposing > a > way for the Fedora Community to pay respects to him, in the following way. > > (1) To open a vote for the following change in the Fedora codenames: > * to rename the upcoming F16 release from "Verne" to "Ritchie", > * to rename the F17 release from "Beefy Miracle" to "Verne", > * to name the F18 release "Beefy Miracle". > (2) To implement the decision reached by voting. > > Rationale: > I believe that the death of Dennis Ritchie should be reflected in Fedora > in > some way, given his contributions to UNIX, C and computing in general. > Furthermore, a codename appears to be a perfect way to pay respects. > > Specifically, I believe that the least we can do is to rename the first > upcoming > release of Fedora, which is F16. It will be officially supported for a > year, > which seems appropriate length. In addition, it will be released fairly > soon. > The future F17 release should be renamed "Verne" in order not to insult > the > great writer nor the people who voted this codename, and to restore the > continuity of the "is a" relationship for codenames. The F18 release > doesn't > yet have a codename, and it seems fit that it be codenamed "Beefy > Miracle", in > order not to insult the voters of that name, and to keep the "is a" > relationship. > > I also believe that this occasion warrants such kind of an exception and a > deviation from the usual naming scheme. > > There is an ongoing discussion about this on the Fedora users list, and > Rahul > Sundaram pointed us to the Fedora Board as a proper list to formally make > this > proposal. > > I am just a simple Fedora user, contributing with occasional advices and > some > help on the users list, and this is my very first official contribution to > the > project (if it can be called a contribution). Apologies if I didn't follow > any > guidelines about this. This proposal is just my opinion alone, although I > welcome everyone to support it. > > So, is this feasible? What do you think? > Good idea. +1'ed. -- Fini D. http://LinuxBSDos.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
