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 ---- On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 18:42:07 -0500 Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> wrote ----
 > On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 13:57 -0500, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
 > > Hello Everyone,
 > > 
 > > We have the final name selected for the OpenStack next release name. Its "OpenStack Yoga".
 > > 
 > > As per the release name criteria[1], selection of release name is gone through three steps:
 > > 
 > > Step1: Name nomination from community members[2].
 > > 
 > > Step2: TC voted on the nominated names[3].
 > > 
 > > Step3: Trademark checks by Foundation on winners from TC votes.
 > > In trademark check, “Yoga” is finalized as the best bet for this release. 
 > > 
 > > Thanks community members to participating in name nomination, TC to vote and Foundation for performing the
 > > trademark checks.
 > > 
 > > "Yoga" is now good signal to extend our exercise and be more fit in Yoga cycle :)
 > were all 4 of the the proceeding items in the vode eliminated by trademark checks?
 > 
 > 1. Yoda  (Not defeated in any contest vs. another choice)
 > 2. Yeti
 > 3. York, loses to Yeti by 4–2
 > 4. Yak, loses to York by 4–2
 > 5. Yoga, loses to Yak by 3–2
 > 
 > given york is a gograpical region/place name that is normally not trademarkable.
 > that was the basis of our much older naming scheme so im kind of suprised we made it down to the fith choice

Yeah, we have to go down until Yoga due to trademark check and best fit/safer name. 

Even in older naming schema also we had to leave names due to trademark safety.

-gmann

 > 
 > 
 > >  
 > > [1] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/release-naming.html#release-name-criteria
 > > [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming/Y_Proposals
 > > [3] https://civs1.civs.us/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_f065453ffd2537cb
 > > 
 > > -gmann
 > > 
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 > 
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