On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 21:40 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:21 PM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 21:20 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote: > > >> Josh Boyer wrote (to a bad address copied from a bad address in my > > >> original mail): > > >> > > >> > Just vote 0 for all of them. > > >> > > >> If I understand the voting system correctly, that's not equivalent because > > >> it means "no opinion" not "none of the above" or "none" [1]. I think under > > >> the current system with no quorum that if (hypothetically) everyone except > > >> one person wanted "none" and thus voted zero for everything, if one person > > >> voted "1" for "Stupidname" then "Stupidname" would win regardless of the > > >> clear contrary opinion of the majority. > > >> > > > > > > That'd be correct, though. B/c we don't care if you don't want a name. > > > We care about having a name for the distro. > > > > > > So a result of 'None' doesn't do anything for us. We want a release name > > > - hence why we have this. > > > > > > It's fine if you think it's useless, afaict, the board does not think > > > it's useless and it is somewhat amusing. > > > > > > > Well I would like to propose that we shift gears a bit.. the naming > > contest was moved up to help the art group figure out a visual theme.. > > and I think that might be backwards.. how about the art group comes up > > with various visual themes.. that gets voted on and then we come up > > with a name that meets the chosen theme. [It would actually make for a > > new game ] > > > > I wonder if we'll ever get big enough that the art team could make a theme > for each proposed name and we could vote on that as part of the name > selection... it'd be wicked awesome :) I more wonder why the art team feels the need to use the nick-name of the distro as a basis for the artwork.. surely they are an independent minded bunch, and it would allows to just choose names that we like instead of ones with meaningful artwork.. Notice I didn't see an type of X-rated stuff in Hardy Hardon, or whatever Ubuntus last distro was called.. Dave. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
