Today the Board decided that the Fedora 18 release naming process was already in progress and therefore we would continue to work with the current process for naming Fedora 18. However, we could change things for Fedora 19 and above. The question was how. Several of the Board members felt that the release names were valuable, at least one expressed the opinion that the current method of choosing release names was fun and one expressed synmpathy with getting rid of the release names. All pretty much agreed that they wanted to know whether there was an overwhelming feeling that release names should go, should not go, or just that the current system was broken. What we'd like to do is have a poll that runs at the same time as the Fedora 18 Release Name voting to determine whether to continue to have release names for Fedora 19+. The poll will be in the voting system and have three choices: * Get rid of release names * Keep release names with the present process * Keep release names but have the Board and community create new criteria/process for choosing them The Board will use the results of this to decide whether to have a new release name for Fedora 19 and if so, whether the process will use the current criteria or we'll create a new one (for instance, mizmo's gathering of ideas for themes for release names). Two notes that the Board wanted to be clear about this proposal: 1) If the Board chooses to create a new process that will likely happen with the people who are doing the work to revamp the process rather than be put to another vote. 2) The Board wanted to make clear that this is a poll, not a binding vote An overwhelming vote will likely influence the Board to go along with a certain plan much more than a close vote where the Board members will feel that there isn't a single definite path being sought for by the community. -Toshio
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