long term support release

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Wed Jan 23 16:03:17 UTC 2008


David Mansfield <fedora at dm.cobite.com> wrote:

[...]

> I think that having one LTS release could be made to work.  Here is an
> additional proposal
> 
> Proposal:
> 
> After the LTS release, wait 1 year (instead of 6 months) for the next
> Fedora release.  This would allow for:

Strongly against. If I get a new machine in between, half of it won't work
unless I am careful not to get "new hardware". Plus the accumulated new
packages and patches will make LTS + 1 (year) a veritable mess, so you'd be
advised to wait for LTS + 2... all while the whining about outdated
software in Fedora won't stop.
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