Hi, there's ongoing discussion about the connotation analysis of Fedora Project code names (so not only for Fedora itself but other sub-projects too) started by Rajesh Ranjan (thanks for ticket!). It's a right time to get an input from community as there's currently running Fedora 18 codename process [1]. As Rajesh posted to Fedora Board Track ticket, connotation is "the emotional and imaginative association for a word, where denotation is the strict dictionary meaning of a word." Current process for selecting next code name is - community members suggests the name, there's publicly accessible list for everyone, then Board goes through the suggested names list to remove the clear examples of names breaking the policy (yeah, usually it's one search term in Google to find out the name has to be ruled out, but that's Board deal ;-) and this list is sent to Red Hat legal for proper legal review. Then the voting is opened for everyone with valid FAS account and only names that passed the process are allowed. In Fedora we believe in freedom and openness, we don't have to stick to the strict "corporate-like| rules but on the other hand we should respect our community and we don't want to offend anyone consciously. Usually, we use the common sense to rule out offending stuff but also we (and Board neither) don't have a degree in sociology, politics, religion and our geek culture is also from the another universe :). As I already pointed out - the process is open. Anybody can step into in the early phase of naming selection and comment the potential problems. And I believe the Board members will think about the concerns raised (at least me ;-). So personally I'd like to avoid any strict rule/policy as it could hurt our community, we don't have a proper set of skills to do the full analysis during the Board turn and I really hope with help provided by community we can avoid the naming problems in the future - just we need your, community, input. Any thoughts? PS: I like Christoph's comment in ticket - that as an international project we should be proud of our diversity. It is a chance and a burden at the same time, Fedora will face this problem often and we can do our best to respect others and their views. Jaroslav [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_18 _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
