Hi, folks!
So Dennis and I were discussing image naming in IRC today. Dennis managed a 'dry run' 21 Alpha test compose:
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/21-Alpha-T2/
but one of the things it makes clear is that our naming scheme for images is really all over the place, now. It's grown up kind of organically from a time when we had CD and DVD installer images to a time when we have installer images, live images and disk images across three different products, and there's no consistency.
We are also running into a size limit issue. ISO image volume IDs have a maximum size of 32 characters. Right now we pretty much use the image filename as the volume ID, for most images. Dennis has thrown in some ad hoc contractions to the filenames/volume IDs used for the TC1 and TC2 compose attempts, but we didn't have any kind of solid plan behind it, we were just duct taping as we went.
So, we tried to come up with a more fully thought through proposal, which would make the names of all the different types of image consistent, easily parseable by both humans and machines, and allow for <=32 character volume IDs. And here it is!
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_fedora_image_naming_polic...
flames, thoughts and suggestions are all welcome! thanks :)