On 1/18/06, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where "Fedora Legacy" is mentioned, couple it with "The Community
> Maintenance Project". IE "Fedora Legacy, the Community Maintenance
> Project". Terms like 'Core', 'Extras', and 'Legacy' are pretty generic,
> and require descriptive terms.
On 2006-01-19 20:41:20 -0600, David Eisenstein wrote:
> I'm going to step into this discussion with a point that some non-USA
> folks here may not realize. In my midwestern United States dialect, the
> word "maintenance" generally has connotations that make it rather less
> than glamorous.
Yes, m
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:29 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:58:50PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Where "Fedora Legacy" is mentioned, couple it with "The Community
> > Maintenance Project". IE "Fedora Legacy, the Community Maintenance
> > Project".
>
> That makes people as
Hi
Although the word "maintenance" does seem to have some negative conno-
tations, it's hard for me to come up with a better word that describes our
purpose and activities. What could the spin doctors can do here? Could
we substitute the word "stewardship" for "maintenance"?
Possibly yes.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> >
> > Hi Rahul, I just browsed through some fedora-devel-list posts from
> > this month, so far all I see is two people in a thread: "RFE: Retire
> > Fedora Core 4 only _after_ FC6 has been released." who mention that
> > they think "legac
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:58:50PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Where "Fedora Legacy" is mentioned, couple it with "The Community
> Maintenance Project". IE "Fedora Legacy, the Community Maintenance
> Project".
That makes people associate it with "FCX is transferred from the company
supported pr
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:
Convert our build system over to that which Fedora Extras uses, and make
use of Fedora content in CVS repositories. This will make maintenance
much easier to manage, and contribution much easier to accomplish.
This would likely be the most important ch
Hi
Hi Rahul, I just browsed through some fedora-devel-list posts from
this month, so far all I see is two people in a thread: "RFE: Retire
Fedora Core 4 only _after_ FC6 has been released." who mention that
they think "legacy" has negative connotation(s). Are there other
posts I'm miss
On Jan 18, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
HI
I don't really see the need for something like this,
Make sure you read the recent fedora-devel list discussions to
understand the need.
and personally I think "community maintenance project" makes it
sound like we're going to be
HI
I don't really see the need for something like this,
Make sure you read the recent fedora-devel list discussions to
understand the need.
and personally I think "community maintenance project" makes it sound
like we're going to be picking up garbage on the side of the highway
I dont
Hi Jesse, I do agree that some things about Fedora Legacy can be
confusing to end users. I've added some notes below.
On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
It has been brought to my attention that some of the terms we use are
scaring users away. This is not a good thing, so I pro
It has been brought to my attention that some of the terms we use are
scaring users away. This is not a good thing, so I propose the
following changes:
Where "Fedora Legacy" is mentioned, couple it with "The Community
Maintenance Project". IE "Fedora Legacy, the Community Maintenance
Project".
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