FL update policy [Re: just one VERIFY to be fully published]

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 08:55 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:

> The first paragraph seems to be saying (in a bit complex fashion) 
> what you were saying -- in practice, that when FC drops FC3 
> support, FL drops FC1 support.
> 

Yes, this is what I understand. (And it seems I can't count, as I had
written FC4... :) )

> However, the last paragraph could be read so that when Fedora Core 4 
> is released ("the current release"), FL will ensure that both FC3 and 
> FC2 are still supported (but not necessarily FC1).
> 

Si in other words, Fedora Legacy will never maintain more than one
unsupported Fedora Core version? It seems to me that prolonging the
usefulness of a release by only six months isn't very long and, IMO, a
waste of time.

> Two questions:
>   1) Does this need to be clarified?

Yes, I think a clear example is needed on the web page.

>   2) If the 1st paragraph is correct, do we have resources to do that 
> kind of continued maintenance?  Unfortunately, at the momemnt, I'm 
> rather skeptical...
> 

We don't really have the resources to maintain any release right now.
Most of the work is done by me, you and Dominic. FL needs more
contributors if it wants to survive, that's for sure.

> At most, we should provide FC1 support until a month or two after FC4 
> is released. That'd probably allow the folks to migrate from FC1 to 
> FC4.  One FC release at the time.
> 
> Unless, of course, we drop RHL73 and RHL9.  I wouldn't want that at 
> least; that's my main (only) interest in Fedora Legacy at the moment.
> 

My only personal interest in FL is FC1 support. I would really like to
see some download statistics of the different releases to see which ones
are useful, and which ones aren't.

Marc.


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