On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 12:50:13PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > On 5/7/20 7:32 PM, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > On 5/6/20 3:55 PM, Jeremy Cline wrote: > >> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:44:55AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: > >>> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 01:45:34PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > >>>> On Wed, 6 May 2020 07:37:35 -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > >>>>> Good idea and I think it would be a smart thing to do. > >>>> > >>>> I generally agree but I don't think "ark" is the best option. The > >>>> kernels are used for Fedora, too, and they will be used for RHEL. We > >>>> should find a prefix that works for all of those kernels/distros. > >>>> I was trying to think of something but I could not find anything > >>>> suitable. It should be short (rules out "downstream") and easily > >>>> remembered (rules out abbreviations for "downstream"). > >>> > >>> I had the same opinion. As we migrated the redhat/ over directly from RHEL, > >>> it is very much polluted with RHELisms. I am happy to clean up the > >>> RHELisms, I would like to use a generic term that covers > >>> Fedora/CentOS-stream/RHEL/ARK. > >>> > >>> I had thoughts of using 'distro' and using that as a generic framework to > >>> push upstream for other distros to plug into, but I never fully flushed out > >>> that idea (ie s/redhat\//distro\//;s/rh-/distro-/). > >>> > >>> Though 'distro' is a tad cumbersome. 'os' may work as it is short enough > >>> (using Prarit's suggestion) but is it intuitively descriptive enough? > >>> > >> > >> 'dist'? I like the shortness of os, but as you say it's not super > >> descriptive. I don't have strong feelings either way, though. > > > > dist would work too. jbenc? dzickus? Anyone else before I push a patch? > > > > Since there isn't a strenuous objection to 'os' (although I do like 'dist' too), > I'm going to go with 'os' for the sake of brevity. I will throw my hat in the ring for 'dist' over 'os'. Cheers, Don _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
