On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:55:44PM +0000, Andre Robatino wrote: > Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> fedoraproject.org> writes: > > > The Board has an open ticket on the naming process. We're working > > through it now, but "no release names" isn't an immediate option > > because the last time we proposed that the community vote showed names > > were still desired. Hopefully we'll resolve the ticket shortly and > > explain how naming needs to work in the future. > > What is the ticket URL? I don't see it under active Fesco tickets. > It's a board ticket. And unfortunately as a project we've never managed to resolve the board's need for private tickets sometimes and the need for public tickets in most cases. > BTW, I was wondering if it's possible to simply remove any reference to the > release name from the Fedora OS, so it's not a burden on developers (like > "Schrödinger’s Cat" was). I noticed that there is a closed ticket > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1103 (Release names should not include > shell metacharacters), which appears to just assume that the release name > has to be included in the OS itself (otherwise, there would be no need for > the ticket). Is that actually true? > There are various things that want to get at the release name. I suspect that if we put it into a different file in the OS, those things would just move around to try to find it. We could just put the release number into those files and keep the release name in our heads, I suppose. There wouldn't be a technical downside to that but I don't know whether people would like that socially or not. -Toshio
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