Max Spevack wrote:
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
* In previous test releases the default product was called
"Prime", but after feedback from Marketing and the community it
has been renamed simply "Fedora".
Are you referring to Red Hat marketing here? It certainly wasn't
discussed in Fedora Marketing. Where was this discussed publicly?
It was discussed a few times by the Fedora Board, and ultimately the
decision was made that we would ask Red Hat's branding team what they
thought made the most sense.
The feedback that we received from them was several-fold:
Most importantly: call something what it is, and *don't* give something
a name that doesn't make it clear what it is.
As such, several of our names made a lot of sense:
Fedora 7 Gnome Live CD
Fedora 7 KDE Live CD
Fedora 7 Everything
All of these are good names. You know what it is, just by looking at
the name.
Except that none of the test releases of Fedora 7 called the GNOME live
cd as that. look at the announcement or
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/. I have pointed this out several
times before and this has not changed. Do you agree we need to call it
by that name?
Fedora Prime fails this test miserably. "Prime" sounds cute, but it
doesn't *mean* anything. "Core" is a deprecated term, and "Classic" was
voted down by the community. All of the other suggestions that I have
seen, IMHO, fell into the same trap that "Prime" did.
The recommendation that Red Hat's branding team made, therefore, was
that we look at "the spin that is similar to what Core used to be" and
simply call it "Fedora 7".
That recommendation was acceptable to the Board, and was passed along to
Jesse as the release engineer. If it was a bit of a surprise to the
rest of the community until the Test4 announcement went out, the fault
there is mine and not Jesse's or anyone else's.
Setting aside the fact that that name is not acceptable for me as a
board member we need to avoid such surprises. I don't know in which
board meeting this was decided but I have missed the discussion or
meeting. I am not finding fault with anyone but some public discussion
should have happened in advisory board list or even here after getting
input from Red Hat branding team.
FWIW, I think that calling the "previously Core" spin simply "Fedora" is
fine. Think about a potential fedoraproject.org front page with a few
download links:
This linking is good but we need a *concise distinct name* for the
desktop/workstation/server spin. We need to know which particular spin
a users have installed when trying to address questions or debug
problems since the package set, defaults and behavior changes in between
them.
I understand the challenge with naming the "prime" spin since unlike the
other spins it covers a number of different functionalities as a upgrade
path for previous users of Fedora Core but overloading the name "Fedora"
for one of the spins is not a option. We need something more distinct.
Rahul
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