[CentOS-devel] Branding hunt

Thu Jun 5 13:03:39 UTC 2014
Carl Trieloff <cctrieloff at redhat.com>

On 06/02/2014 06:22 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> There are three things that we are trying to achieve in the branding
> hunt. In priority order these are :
>
> 1) To remove Red Hat TM's so as to meet their requirements and guidelines
>
> 2) To establish the CentOS Branding and identity
>
> 3) To remove ambiguity downstream as to where and what the code
> represents. This includes replacing strings that brand a component to be
> a part of RHEL. eg: if something says 'the xxxx for Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux' we would replace that to say 'the xxxx for CentOS Linux'
>
> Some notes to keep in mind while you go through stuff to check for
> branding issues :
> a) we are not trying to replace (c) Red Hat, or things where it says its
> Red Hat influenced, like the 'gcc -v' string
>
> b) Even if someone has reported a component as checked, please check it
> again - more +1's to a patch, or to a whitelist request, or to a
> blacklist request help increase confidence in the overall end result.
>
> c) please also install and check in the GUI, sometimes applications
> About box's will have the Red Hat shadowman logos that we need to
> usually replace.
>
> d) When in doubt, feel free to reach out
>
> Getting in touch : During the entire Branding hunt run, we will be
> available on #centos-devel / irc.freenode.net as well as the
> centos-devel list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ), feel free to reach out
> with comments, suggestions etc.
>
>

Also, let's build a wiki with the set of changes so we can summit them
upstream for easier branding in future.

Carl.