On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:55 PM, george2 <george2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I present a request to not move to release F17 until the release name is > changed in the released code. > > I appreciate the comments public and private but it remains that this name > may do considerable harm. This has already been discussed on the advisory-board mailing list, please go and read the list archives there. The vote for naming happened a whole 6 months ago and when that was announced was the time to complain not a couple of weeks before the release is due. Ultimately the ways and means of registering your dislike of the name was when it was being voted for and rallying a crowd of people to vote against the name then. Peter > There is not formal criterion for a blocker bug. So I appeal to this group, > as the last in the community, to present their decision that the release is > not yet ready, for humanitarian reasons. > > You would block if there was a flaw in an important technical element, but > Fedora is more than technology, it is a community. > > > > Most who communicated with me believe this is not the place to raise this > request. That iis too late in the process. The name process was discussed by > the "board" and they declined to address the concerns raised and defer to > address naming and word meaning and connotations at a future release. If > this had been flushed-out when the warning was raised, it would not have > impacted the placement of the objected-to name in so many places and > documentation and release notes. I was not part of those initial dialogs. > > > > Some have said to me that it cannot be stopped because "legal" or some other > group did not object so it is ok for Testing to assume ok. But also note > that few women are involved in the approval processes. The banking crises > was in part formed by many individuals sensing something wasn't right but > did not take any personal responsibility to act. > > > > Consider please: > > if one headmaster says the release is inappropriate to use in the > teaching or desktop situation; > > if one religious leader objects to its use in that the supporting > material for the name says "this is your new god" > > if one advocate of equality for women speaks up > > if one government department says its use violates discrimination in the > workplace laws > > if one parent objects > > and it is picked up by the press.... > > > > I don't know the future, but I think that releasing with this name has the > potential to be a destroyer of the momentum that the contributors to > Fedora with the support of RedHat have worked to build. > > > > > > > > > > -- > test mailing list > test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
