Apart from Fedora 42, which was named “Adams” to honor Douglas Adams, all other releases are named just by their number, like “Fedora 43 (Forty Three)”, and so on.
I’d like to propose to use a random world language for the name, rather than always English. I think it would be fair since Fedora is made by worldwide contributors and it’s just a small change which, I think, doesn’t have any other impact other than recognize Fedora openness.
I would definitely like release naming to come back, too. I’m not sure if world languages is what I’d want (I definitely liked the previous connecting theme convention, even if it got loopy at times!).
I suppose if we use languages, how do we want to do it? Using endonyms? Or are exonyms on the table?
I don’t really know what endonyms and exonyms are 
But my idea was to just use “official” nation languages, for example “Fedora 43 (Dreiundvierzig)” or “Fedora 44 (Quarantaquattro)”.
I don’t mind bringing back the theming name, or just use a theme name for special events. For example, as we just had an Adams release, I’d like to see one Volta release named against my fellow citizen Alessandro Volta as we’re approaching celebrations for 200 years from his death (you probably have heard about the Volt measuring unit… yet another term distorted in English).
These are a bit tongue twisty perhaps 
Naming releases after inspiring people sounds great though.
The first thing that comes to mind is languages that use non-Latin alphabets? Will they be included, and if so, how? Fedora сорок три or Fedora sorok tri (I have used an online service to translate).
As a normal user I have no use for a name. The version number (e.g. 42) tells me everything I need.
I certainly don’t mind a name along with the version number but the name should not be used instead of the version number. Noone can remember if Fedora JohnDoe was released before or after Fedora FooBar.
The numbers can be a little bit confusing too, mostly because other software may use numbering close to Fedora’s but just slightly different (e.g. Gnome 48).
I would even go further to suggest only having version numbers is better than numbers and names. Not only do names not provide additional information, but they also cause confusion when people refer to the version by the name only excluding the version number.
hi
i totally agree
AFAIK this naming was a one time thing. But, the Design team use people names to theme the wallpaper, maybe you could be interested in that, you can check the design team discussion section Fedora 43 Inspiration
Bad idea. Fedora used to give releases names and, IIRC, Schroedinger’s Cat (with accented characters) broke things in a big way. After that it was decided to use a numbering scheme only.
This could be interesting. Any benefit to users?
That is the problem with names that are both alive and dead…
Imo the best names are the ones related to animals, since are more universal approach alongside with the release number. Apple did that, Ubuntu do some sort of it.
Saying that, I vote for fedora 43 capybara edition
And Apple, quite reasonably, abandoned the idea. While Fedora could try to chase an abandoned legacy, that tends not to be a good story going forward.
Yes, if you’re not a native speaker of that language. Someone could say the same for English as well 
I think anyone when reading “Fedora 42” will read it in their own language, so for me it’s “Fedora 42 (Quarantadue)” even if on screen I read the phrase “Fedora 42 (Forty Two)” or whatever language is used. The point of my proposal to use a random national language is to show Fedora is made by international people.
I think if we ever want to have a release name back, following the Design team choice would be wonderful.
There are little benefits to have a release name, IMO, one of them is to bring fun facts or a pill of general culture to everyone by discovering inspiring people and what they do/did.
if i remember right they choose cats to all versions, of course they would had to abandon at some point , there isnt enough top food chain cats in the world
While it’s true there were issues from ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ (and most of
those were not due to the ö but rather the ') I don’t think thats really
the reason we stopped doing names.
In the super early days, release names were something that the main
release engineer picked and had some connection to the previous name. It
was something fun and interesting to puzzle out and gave them a small
reward for all their work.
Over time however, naming was moved to be a more community focused thing
with contributors suggesting some names and connections.
Then, sadly process grew and lawyers got involved. 
The last few names (before this one off one for f42) had this process:
Look at all that. Basically it kind of made names into a heavy thing
that required a bunch of work (including votes and lawyer review!)
instead of something fun and simple.
STRONGLY opposed to this and any kind of naming.
Version numbers are perfectly fine and the most important fact is they avoid confusion.
See Debian and how we have to remember if bullseye was before buster or after and what actual version number it is. And that’s with English which the vast majority of the planet can understand, remember and easily replicate (and no I’m not a native English speaker but I would NEVER want Fedora 43 to be named “Μινόταυρος”). Adding names in itself is bad. Adding names no one can even remember or even pronounce is beyond bad.