On 14 August 2015 at 16:10, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> 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?
I don't know.. this seems like having Debian rename Sid to Lotso or
Pete because it plays better with the kids these days :).
I believe the history for calling it rawhide was that Donnie Barnes
(djb) and Mike Wangsmo (wanger) were cowboys and dealing with daily
churned packages was like dealing with a cattle call. [Before we
treated out servers like cattle, we did so to our packages.] Of course
others put it that it was not about the Rollin' Rollin' song but the
chewtoy.
In the end, I think that the name should be direct and clear like it
was another Edition. This will keep the fights over spacerocket,
chewtoy, <cool reference people will not get in 10 years> to a minimum
and not confuse our messaging with Editions. I am guessing names like:
Now
Current
Rolling
CurrentBuilds
RollingRelease
Cyberpophagist
would be appropriate. [I kid on the last one...]
--
Stephen J Smoogen.