reviving Fedora Legacy

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:35 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:23:49PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:14 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:12:40PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> >Alternative: Officially extend Fedora life-times.
> 
> This is not an alternative to the above. 
Why not?

Other distros apply much longer life-times.

openSUSE has 2 years:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html

> >Alternative: Discontinue EPEL and replace it a full RHEL/CentOS
> >derivative as part of Fedora.
> 
> I think if you remove the RHEL part of this, it makes some sense.
> I doubt Red Hat is going to sign up for support of all the EPEL
> packages, so they will never be part of RHEL proper.
Agreed.

Ralf