Well, we’re not baking pancakes are we, isn’t the project about creating/maintaining an operating system?
No, but I guess what @knurpht wanted to point out is that 24/7OS sounds very much like a name for an OS.
But the OS (distribution) name will not change it will still be Tumbleweed, Slowroll, Leap,…
The name that has been requested to be changed is the name for the project.
And actually from what I understood there were also desired changes in the management structure of the project.
IMHO the name for the project should correspond with the underlying structure. In that regards I am excited to see where the Geeko foundation is going.
Not exclusively.
Open Build Service and OpenQA are two openSUSE projects that aren’t distributions.
(I’m going to take a second here to just remind everyone that this is NOT an “official” discussion, nor has there been any sort of discussion beyond this specific thread in over a year. This is just “fans of the project goofing around”. See the note at the very top of the topic for some very important context.)
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Nope we’re not baking pancakes. We do make stuff like OBS, openQA, Kiwi and so on. Not just the distros
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@DuctTape @hendersj and @knurpht. Am I wrong in stating that the ultimate goal and core purpose of the openSUSE project is to create/manage/maintain/support an os? And yes, the project includes important subprojects (kiwi, obs, openqa as mentioned) to facilitate and ease the creation/management/maintanance/support of an os that comes in different distros (leap, tumbleweed, slowroll, microos, jeos, aeon, kalpa and so on).
From https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Project
The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world’s best Linux distributions, as well as a variety of tools, such as OBS, OpenQA, Kiwi, YaST, OSEM, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.
But this is just my look at things as a very new member of this community/project. BTW, best linux based os I ever used and a great community!
You quoted and highlighted the part that supports the view that you’ve expressed, but the emphasis can as easily be:
I think you’d find that for many of those who work on OBS, OpenQA, Kiwi, YaST, OSEM, and other projects, the distributions are secondary to what they do. OBS isn’t just about building packages and distributions for openSUSE - you can build packages for a wide range of Linux distributions.
OpenQA can be used outside of the scope of building a Linux distribution - as it’s an automated testing platform.
And so on.
So while what the openSUSE project is best known for is the distributions (Leap, Tumbleweed, Slowroll, MicroOS, and others) because they’re the only thing most users see or use, the project is about so much more than just the Linux distributions that come out of it.
That said - welcome to the community! We’re glad you’re here, and encourage you to learn more about the project as a whole. 
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OK, Wim, here’s some background:
- Before 2014, we had 1 distro, called openSUSE
- In 2014 Tumbleweed was publicly accepted as a distro under the openSUSE Project umbrella
- In 2015 it was decided to call the “stable” release Leap, so there was no actual distro called just openSUSE.
- These days we, to avoid confusion, don’t call them “openSUSE Leap” and “openSUSE Tumbleweed” anymore, but just “Leap” and "Tumbleweed.
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Yes I am very quiet penguin.
Just to use the names Leap and Tumbleweed makes a lot of sense. Would that work for separate project names? If not, for some reason I can’t explain Prism sounds cool to me.
Zoltar Leap
Transmute! Tumbleweed
Call me old school, but I like my distros the way I like my anime: the way they were. 
I wonder how many folk here will even get the Battle of the Planets reference.
Late to the party, still feel like I should give my 50ct: Please, for the love of god, don’t fragment OpenSUSE. You would throw away an immeasurable amount of brand capital. A careful rebrand, sure, no problem with that (other than the usual risks involved with rebranding). But keep the various projects united. It doesn’t matter if they are closely technically related or not. It is about brand extension, it doesn’t have to make sense from a dev’s POV.
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Don’t worry this is not a serious topic. Nothing is intended to come from it.
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Oh, thank god. I’ve seen a rebrand mentioned somewhere and ended up here. And I’ve seen one too many disastrous dev-driven business decisions… (no shade on devs, but they often tend to have a very technical outlook).
Refer to the originating mailing list links earlier in this thread if you want to see how the discussion was spawned. Dead in the water now.
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The admins have decided that this thread has been open long enough. Nothing new can be added, since there is no progress or news on the subject. Now closing the thread.
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