On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 23:11 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On 18/03/13 10:22 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 05:56:28PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 18:34 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:56:28 +0000 > >>> Sérgio Basto <ser...@serjux.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> For the first time, Fedora release name have non-ascii and pelican > >>>> characters which > >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922433 > >>>> > >>>> Could we consider change release name from "Schrödinger's Cat" to > >>>> "Schrodingers Cat" or other name that not have this additional > >>>> problem ? > >>> > >>> I'd rather we fix things to handle this case than paper it over by > >>> changing it. > >> > > +1 > > > >> I would very much like that we paper it over right now, unless you > >> propose to discover and fix every single problem it causes by tomorrow, > >> when I want us to start rolling TC images. > >> > > If by right now you mean until we get TC out (or even until we get alpha > > out), I wouldn't be opposed to that. These sort of bugs really are > > something that need to be fixed and this release name is a good candidate > > for doing so... but the time from alpha to beta is appropriate for fixing > > bugs so it's okay if we defer fixing them for a little while. > > > > -Toshio "who's been working on various iterations of a fix for this in the > > python3 package[1] for a few days" Kuratomi > > Well, look, my point is that sometimes our commitment to 'fixing things > the right way' appears to verge on bloody masochism. > > You want to set up a side project to spin some images with crazy release > names and see what breaks and fix that, then you know, go for it. But > I'm trying to ship an operating system that works here, and leaving > something we know is causing all kinds of problems in the problematic > state just so we can keep finding exciting new problems to fix does not > suffuse me with joy. > > If we have to compromise on just papering it over for Alpha, I mean, > _fine_. But seriously: sometimes papering it over is just the right > thing to do.
(nods) If we were *really* masochistic, the release name would contain unicode code points from outside the BMP i.e. > 65535 e.g. the musical notation characters. I, for one, am not that masochistic. Dave -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
