reviving Fedora Legacy

[shmuel siegel]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:12:05PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>   
>> Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
>>     
>>> In my response to that mail, failing to have a metric I retired my
>>> proposal, and nobody supported my views (and overall nobody supported my
>>> views).
>>>       
>> In terms of those metrics, I'm still in favor of a mostly anarchical approach:
>>     
>
> I completly agree. This is simple and leave everything to the packagers
> initiative, I think that it is also what Ralf had in mind. But some people 
> insisted on communicating to the public what was maintained, hence my 
> proposal. But what you propose is better.
>
> --
> Pat
>
>   
Up to here you definitely had my sympathy. But this anarchical approach 
makes me wonder who your target audience is. I would think that the 
majority of people who wouldn't want to upgrade to an official Fedora 
release would be people who need stability. Fedora itself  is probably a 
little bit too unstable for them. These people would probably want more 
than the average level of QA. To borrow a phrasing from Jef, legacy 
updates should be edible by babies.