Re: Friday Flames - What to do with RHL7.3/9 and FC1/2

[Jeff Sheltren <sheltren cs ucsb edu>]

On Jun 10, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 6/9/06, seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:53 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > As we approach FC6 Test2, we should make a decision wrt RHL7.3/9  
> > and
> > > FC1/2.  We've been supporting these releases for a while now, and
> > > they've grown pretty long in the tooth, even by Legacy  
> > standards.  Our
> > > lifetime policy would dictate that FC1 should be gone already,  
> > and FC2
> > > would go when we pick up FC4, so that we're only supporting FC3  
> > and FC4.
> > > The RHL releases are a different matter.
> > >
> >
> > +1 for killing rhl 7.3, 9, fc1 and fc2 when fc4 comes in.
>
> I think so too. If people need support for RHL-7.3/9 they need to pay
> someone to support it or move to something else. The amount of time
> trying to get a patched set done, tested, and finished is a full-time
> job for people.

I agree with this - let's do away with RHL and FC1/FC2 support once  
we take on FC4.  Jesse has already given many good reasons for doing  
so, so I won't repeat them here again :)

-Jeff