Just make sure more information is awarded by all, here's some discussion on irc: openstack-tc during this mail is send. http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2019-... On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:07 AM Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:
On 2019-08-11 10:30:32 -0700 (-0700), James E. Blair wrote: [...]
I still do believe that it meets all of the criteria. In particular, it meets this:
* The name must refer to the physical or human geography of the region encompassing the location of the OpenStack summit for the corresponding release.
It is short for "University of Shanghai for Science and Technology", which is a place in Shanghai. Here is their website: http://en.usst.edu.cn/ [...]
This got discussed after last week's TC meeting during Thursday office hours, and I'm sorry I didn't think to give you a heads-up when the topic arose:
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2019-...
One of the objections raised was that "University" in the name "University of Shanghai for Science and Technology" was a general class of place or feature and not a particular place or feature. But as you pointed out in IRC a while back (and which I should have remembered), there is precedent with the Pike cycle name:
Pike (the Massachusetts Turnpike, also the Mass Pike...)
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming/P_Proposals#Proposed_Names
Another objection raised is that "OpenStack University" was the old name for what we now call the OpenStack Upstream Institute and that it could lead to name confusion if chosen. A search of the Web for that name last week turned up only two occurrences for me on the first page of results, both of which were lingering references in our wiki which I immediately corrected, so I don't think that argument holds.
Then there was the suggestion that "University" might somehow be a trademark risk, though in my opinion that's why we have the OSF vet the preliminary winning results after the community ranks them (so that the TC doesn't need to concern itself with trademark issues).
It was also pointed out that each time we have a poll with a mix of English and non-English names/words, an English name inevitably wins. Since this concern isn't backed up by the documented process[*] we're ostensibly following, I'm not really sure how to address it.
Ultimately I was unable to convince my colleagues on the TC that "University" was a qualifying name, and so it was handled as a possible exception to the normal rules which, following a poll of most TC members, was decided would not be granted.
[*] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/release-naming.html -- Jeremy Stanley
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