On Thursday 13 October 2011 17:59:32 Digimer wrote: > On 10/13/2011 12:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Thursday 13 October 2011 15:41:24 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> Fedora 17 name has already been voted upon. Fedora 18 codename > >> suggestions will be requested when Fedora 17 is about to be released > > > > I think it would be more appropriate to rename F16, rather than wait for > > a whole year to pay respects to the man. Since Ritche was a key inventor > > of both C and UNIX, I believe a case can be made to make an exception > > and rename the first upcoming release, which will be F16. > > > > Rahul, can you present the case to the relevant people, maybe open a vote > > on it so that everyone can formally state their opinion? > > > > My suggestion is the following: > > > > (1) Rename F16 to "Ritchie" (or "Dennis", whatever people like better), > > (2) Rename F17 to "Verne" (in order not to insult the great writer), > > (3) Rename F18 to "Beefy Miracle" (in order to keep the chain of "is a" > > naming). > > > > I think that is the least Fedora Community can do to pay respects to > > Dennis Ritchie. Opinions? > > > > Best, :-) > > Marko > > F16 is more or less finished. To change it's name now would require > updating RPMs which, though it would be effectively a trivial change, > runs the risk on introducing bugs. Oh, come on, what kind of bug could changing one string in /etc/redhat-release ever induce? I believe it is easier (and more honorable) to rebuild the fedora-release rpm (or is that generic-release?) for F16 and recalculate the hash *before* F16 is released, rather than waiting for six more months to pay respects to Ritchie. It certainly is a trivial change, technically. Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
