On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:14:36 -0400 (EDT) > Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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? >> > > I think we should drop the naming process altogether. > > For the following reasons: > > 1. the names do not serve any use > 2. the names are a waste of time and effort to administer the process > 3. no one remembers the names. > 4. the names are potentially divisive. > > Let's do away with naming releases altogether and side step this entire > issue. > > Thanks, > -sv To add one more justification there: 5. Now that we've had Zod and Beefy Miracle - is there really any point continuing? (yes I know, Bacon, but that's very unlikely to be approved) :) _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
