Re: RFD: Alternative Release Support

["Rob J. Caskey" <rcaskey uga edu>]

I created a page on the wiki:

http://www.fedora.us/wiki/EveryOtherRelease?action=edit

It would be nice if everyone just put their name down under yay or nay
so we can see how many people are going in which direction.

-Rob

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 08:44, Peter Surda wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:38:12PM -0700, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> > pluses: allows for many releases to have support for a long time
> > minuses: every release supported will require more engineering support and
> > time into doing it. The number of current coding volunteers is small.
> I volunteer and know 2 other guys who could help (we were actually planning of
> doing something like this before we realized fedora legacy was there). Each of
> us need this for maintaining numerous decentralized deployments of Red Hat
> Linux, where frequent upgrades or migrations are out of question (noone would
> pay for them), and all of us have practical experience building own rpm
> packages, and have our own machines to test it.
> 
> I wouldn't worry about developer availability, but as one of the previous
> posters mentioned, about RH not being happy with this competing with Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux.
> 
> Where do I apply, is some formal application necessary?
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <shurdeek routehat org>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023