On Thursday 13 October 2011 21:02:00 Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > This is a lovely sentiment but I think it would prove difficult to > > accomplish at this point in time and would be a little disruptive to > > the artwork/codename theming that is already finished. > > > > As an alternative I would suggest leaving the codenames as they are > > but when we release F16 we do so in memory of Dennis Ritchie. > > +1, it's too late for code name change but dedicate F16 to two > awesome men - Jules Verne and Dennis Ritchie! One in code name, > another one as dedication. Ok, I do see the point about artwork. But I don't understand how is the release going to be dedicated exactly? I mean practically, is something going to be written somewhere, or otherwise how will most people know that F16 is dedicated to Ritchie? If a codename is out of the picture, I'm out of practical ideas how to do it. Best, :-) Marko _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
