On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 08:43 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it has often come up lately that since the "Core" will be removed from
> Fedora as a name the currently used disttag of fcN needs to be
> adjusted. As long as people were discussing what Fedora will be named
> it was difficult to nail some acronym, but now the simple "Fedora"
> emerged (which is good IMO).
>
> The problem is that the natural disttag of f7 is rpm-lesser that any
> fcN. There are two paths to take:
>
> a) Don't care about upgrade paths through disttags, just rebuild
> everything with a higher buildid (the part of the release before
> the disttag) and you can pick any disttag you like.
>
> The pros are obviously that one can use .f7, the cons are that
> we'll artificially introduce a specfile difference between many
> fc5/fc6 and f7/f8 specfiles which will make maintenance more error
> prone (foo will be foo-1-1.fc5, foo-1-1.fc6, foo-1-2.f7,
> foo-1-2.f8, e.g. foo-1-1%{?dist} pre- and foo-1-2%{?dist}
> post-merge). Add RHEL4/5 to the mix and the buildid confusion is
> perfect. It would haunt us until early 2008 (EOL for fc6), but then
> we'd be using our favourite disttag w/o a specfile era barrier
> anymore.
>
> b) Make sure any abbreviation used in the disttag for Fedora 7 and
> above is higher than that of fc6 and below. I.e. find something
> that is rpm-newer than "fc". "f" itself is lesser, capitalized
> versions the same. If one want to stick with something that starts
> with an "f" and has minimal characters one needs to play with "fd"
> to "fz". Out of them two seem to make sense acronym-wise (perhaps
> other's are also making sense, speak up if you spot one!):
>
> "fl" (Fedora Linux) or
> "fp" (Fedora Project).
>
> fl was up to now semantically occupied by the legacy project, but
> it's free to use now.
>
> The downside is that it implies that "Fedora" is "Fedora Linux" or
> "Fedora Project" which may be good or bad, it depends on marketing
> strategies.
How about "fv" (Fedora Version) or "fr" (Fedora Release)?
Paul.
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