joeyh

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Considering naming git-annex releases after NSA and GCHQ spying programs. "MUTANT BROTH", "EGOTISTICAL GIRAFFE", etc.

What could possibly go wrong?

Olivier Berger, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Amitai Schleier, Stephen Sekula and 3 others likes this.

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Careful sticking your (very long) neck out.

Amitai Schleier at 2013-11-11T02:43:19Z

If memory serves there is a DoD Instruction that specifies how such codenames/nicknames are generated.  I cannot remember where said Instruction is located, though, that explains the algorithm.

Stephen Michael Kellat at 2013-11-11T03:11:29Z