Re: Naming A New Build

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:32:59PM -0500, nem live wrote:
> On Jan 6th we lost a very intelligent, and debian driven soul.
> My best friend Travis, who made me use debian passed away.
> Everything I know about Linux is because of him.
> 
> Is it possible to get a future build/distro named after him?

Codenames for Debian are chosen from the Toy Story films [1]. It's not clear if
you mean this or a dedication.

Dedications [2] are rare and chosen by the release manager of the day. They are
typically to someone who was actively involved in the project and gave over
and above what we'd consider average involvement. I'm sorry, but your
friend's advocacy of the distribution doesn't seem to me to fall into this
category.

You could consider organising some events yourself in honour of your
friend, perhaps a party for the next release [3] or a bug squashing party [4]
if there are enough people interested locally.

1: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Codenames
2: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/dedication/
3: https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseParty
4: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP

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Re: Naming A New Build

[Philip Hands]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, nem live  wrote:
> On Jan 6th we lost a very intelligent, and debian driven soul.
> My best friend Travis, who made me use debian passed away.
> Everything I know about Linux is because of him.

Please accept my condolences.

> Is it possible to get a future build/distro named after him?

Note that I am not a Release Manager, and so am not involved in the
selection of release names.  It just struck me that your question
deserved an answer, so I'll try to give you one.

As you may know, our scheme for naming releases (since we started using
codenames) has been to use characters from the Toy Story films.

To date we've not varied from that, despite there having been several
prominent Debian contributors who have died over the years. We have
dedicated some of our releases to some of those, but in a project this
large we would often have several candidates for each release, as you
might be able to judge from this partial list:

  https://joeyh.name/hacker_tombstone/

This means that it would be rather awkward to go down the road of naming
releases in memoriam. It might raise questions of which of several
candidates should receive the honour, which is likely to leave some
people who are already having to deal with the loss of someone they love
feeling rather less happy than if we'd never started on such a course.

I hope that you find a way to commemorate Travis adequately, but I'm
sorry to say that I suspect that it will have to be something other than
having a Debian release named after him.

Yours sincerely, Philip Hands.
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Naming A New Build

[nem live]

On Jan 6th we lost a very intelligent, and debian driven soul.
My best friend Travis, who made me use debian passed away.
Everything I know about Linux is because of him.

Is it possible to get a future build/distro named after him?
CodeNames: isolated,klono,yogurt
Name Travis Aaron Neeley

This would mean worlds to use who continue the projects without him.

http://www.legacy.com/guestbooks/dentonrc/travis-aaron-neeley-condolences/187796559?=true=addentry=0=2

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