Re: Proposal for ConsoleKit distributor-list announcement

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Lennart Poettering wrote:

> I am currently also the maintainer of CK. I discussed with Martin Pitt
> (Canonical) and Jon McCann (Red Hat, original author) that as soon as we
> don't need CK anymore in Fedora I will hand off upstream maintainership
> duty to Martin. Jon requested that at that time the project changes its
> name (but can continue to use the old name in the bus names, classes and
> so on), and Martin agreed to that.

What is the reason for the name change? My immediate perception is
that it will complicate packaging, and render various documentation
needlessly obsolete.

What are the benefits I am missing?



        Fred