On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, nem live <nemofbaltimore@gmail.com> 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. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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