Re: RFE: Retire Fedora Core 4 only _after_ FC6 has been released.

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Ian Pilcher wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  
>
> > > As Keith said, if this is the policy then it should be clearly stated.
> > > Also, the fact that support for FC3 was extended because of the 9 month
> > > development cycle of FC5 isn't very consistent with this point of view.
> > >
> > >      
> > FC X goes legacy when FC Z test 2 gets released. Always been policy.
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ
> >
> >    
>
> My point is that, if the intent is to transfer Fedora Core X to legacy
> N months after Fedora Core X+1 is released, *that* should be explicitly
> stated, rather than confusing the issue with X+2 test releases.
>  
You dont get it. The transition happens based on the subsequent releases 
and are *not* based on N months time period of any sort. For example ff 
we decide to having a development release cycle of one year for FC6, FC4 
would get benefited from a longer release maintenance cycle from Fedora 
Core developers.

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Rahul 

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