Re: Help us rebrand rawhide

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This is just an initial thought, which might be quite off-target, but how about "GetGo"?

Here's my thinking. As I understand things, Rawhide is where a Fedora release originates, so it perhaps describes the purpose quite well.

In marketing terms, it offers some obvious options for calls to action/slogans. "Get it right from the getGo", for example, has a duality of meaning: 'ensure correctness from the start' (chiming with the idea of passing some basic tests first) as well as 'retrieve directly from the source' (returning to the description of purpose).

"get_go: get it and go make Fedora great" again reflects the use for development, with the 'get it and go' implying a little more stability than Rawhide's existing reputation.

From a design perspective, the visual similarity, at least in the vowels, with "Fedora", along with the G-duplication might suggest particular directions for styling.

I've tried to demonstrate various options akin to variable naming, and here's another, a play on a line of programming code, because who doesn't want a bit of Lispy homoiconicity?:

(get-go :fedora "development")

Rather than triggering debates about which is best -- obviously it's the last one :) -- this has actually been to investigate whether all might work, reflecting the inclusiveness of Fedora's "Friends" foundation.

Of course, feel free to point out any issues. I thought I'd throw it out there, though.

On 14 August 2015 at 23:10, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So, here at Flock, we're talking about improving Rawhide so it's much
less likely to break (it will, for example, be always installable and
always updatable).

We took the "Rawhide eats babies" readme file away a long time ago,
but it still has that reputation. So, the consensus in the room here is
that we'd like a new name for a new, less scary devel tree.

What should it be?


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