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Results of Fedora 19 Release Name Voting

From:  Robyn Bergeron <rbergero-AT-redhat.com>
To:  announce-AT-lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  Results of Fedora 19 Release Name Voting
Date:  Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:00:39 -0700
Message-ID:  <50A5BA67.4090200@redhat.com>
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Hello!

Voting has concluded for the Fedora 19 release name, and the results are 
now available for viewing.

The Fedora 19 release name is: Schrödinger's Cat

I'd like to give a hearty "thank you" to those in the Fedora Project 
community who proposed names and participated in voting.

Voting Period:
Friday 2012-11-09 00:00:00 UTC
to
Thursday 2012-11-15 23:59:59 UTC

Number of valid ballots cast: 391

Using the range voting method, each potential name could attain a 
maximum of (391 * 8) =  3128 votes.


Results:

Votes ::  Name
--------------------------------------------
1876  ::  Schrödinger's Cat
1620  ::  Higgs Boson
1012  ::  Tiddalik
960   ::  Loch Ness Monster
907   ::  Newtonian Dynamics
892   ::  Martian Blueberries
722   ::  Parabolic Potassium
595   ::  Cubical Calf

Cheers,

-Robyn
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Results of Fedora 19 Release Name Voting

Posted Nov 23, 2012 10:41 UTC (Fri) by cdamian (subscriber, #1271) [Link]

First Fedora name with a special character (umlaut) and also a single quote. I expect all kind of things to break.

Results of Fedora 19 Release Name Voting

Posted Nov 23, 2012 11:15 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

The person who originally thought of that name is either a master troll or trusts the locales implementation and bash's requoting unconditionally. Oh, things will break, hilariously.

Results of Fedora 19 Release Name Voting

Posted Nov 23, 2012 15:18 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Make it "Schroedinger\'s Cat" then. The Germans have a locale-proof system, I like that.

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