What if we used the elements from the periodic table as codenames, starting with hydrogen and continuing on through to the end of the (currently known) list. 118 elements, two releases a year, and we’re good for 59 years of codenames. :)
Just a thought.
Ron
On 4 Nov 2024, at 10:32, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 11:26 AM Daniel P. Berrangé berrange@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
I posted this discussion on Fedora Discussion[1] last week, but I'd
like to forward this discussion to devel-list for wider consideration.
For the sake of keeping the conversation in one place, I do ask that
you reply on the Discussion thread, rather than on Fedora Devel,
please."""
The number “42” is a significant part of the story of the Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy, a classic series of satirical science fiction
written by Douglas Adams. It has a long and enduring history in the
geek lexicon, and it seems to me like the Fedora Project would be
missing a tremendous opportunity to have a little fun with it.I’d like to propose that we consider bringing back the old Fedora
codenames just this once and declare the release “Fedora 42 (Adams)”,
ideally with a few subtle nods snuck in to the artwork for the
release.When discussing this on the Fedora Council Matrix channel, Aleksandra
Fedorova also made the excellent suggestion of producing some “Fedora
Linux 42”-branded hand towels (which is another nod to the
Hitchhiker’s series).
"""Yes, could be a nice "one off" special.
For context, I was trying to remind myself of the various reasons
why we stopped doing release names originally. Sadly a lot of
Fedora's historical record appears to be lost from moving and/or
discontinuing services :-(The best I found was:
which links to "meeting minutes" documented in
https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/146
which no longer exists, and doesn't seem to have been archived
either [1].The requirement to get legal vetting was the main issue mentioned
in the mailing post, and I do recall that was the big resource
drain in the old process.We would need to get legal clearance to use "Adams" I presume.
At least if we're doing this as a pre-determined choice
in one-off exercise, we're not going to be wasting Legal
resources as we did when we had them vetting 5+ different
names every 6 months.To be honest, I think we should bring back codenames overall, but I'll
take the one-off for now.--
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