Re: Fedora Core 4 coming . . . sunset, infrastructure issues . . . meeting?

[Jeff Sheltren <sheltren cs ucsb edu>]

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On Jun 28, 2006, at 8:51 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 June 2006 18:49, David Eisenstein wrote:
> >    1) Legacy maintainers need to prepare a package or set of  
> > packages for
> >       Fedora Core 4 users to give them Fedora Legacy yum  
> > repositories to
> >       pull updated packages from, and to install for them the Fedora
> >       Legacy package signing GPG key.  Details of this package  
> > preparation
> >       need to be planned and executed.
>
> I'm pretty sure FC4 repos already exist on  
> download.fedoralegacy.org, we just
> need to populate them with a yum-config package.
Cool, I'll start a bugzilla entry for this and post an update to the  
FC3 yum-conf package for FC4.


> >    4) Has the community reached any kind of consensus on the  
> > issues of
> >       potentially retiring Red Hat Linux 7.3, Red Hat Linux 9,  
> > Fedora Core
> >       1, Fedora Core 2?
>
> The best plan I heard thus far was to phase out FC1 and 2 at the  
> proper time
> (when FC6 reaches test2 and we get FC4), but give RHL 6~ months to  
> get moved
> to something better.
I'm all for leaving behind as much as possible as soon as possible.   
After seeing absolutely no response to David's "Status of bugs in the  
queue" message, I am even more convinced that there is a serious lack  
of interest in maintaining packages.  Six months should be plenty of  
time for those to migrate away from the older RH releases.


> >    5) Are there other items, either of a technical or political  
> > nature we
> >       need to do before we become the stewards of Fedora Core 4's  
> > security
> >       and critical bug fix updates?
>
> I don't know.  Community?
On the technical side, I need to get plague/mock setup for FC4 since  
we're still waiting on an "integrated" Fedora solution.  I can  
probably get this done over the weekend.  I assume Jesse or someone  
will be taking care of transferring bugzilla stuff over to legacy.


> > I will likely not be available the rest of this week, and next  
> > Monday and
> > Tuesday are holiday evenings in the United States of America.   
> > Shall we
> > shoot for an meeting on IRC mid-week next week?  If we meet on  
> > Wednesday,
> > July 7th, that will leave us 12 calendar days to get stuff done  
> > between
> > that meeting and the time we are due to inherit Fedora Core 4.
>
> WORKSFORME
>
> Trying to setup a time is a nightmare though.  Lets start the  
> bidding at 14:00
> UTC (which is 10:00am Eastern Daylight Time, otherwise known as Red  
> Hat
> standard time (: )

That time wouldn't work for me.  If the meeting will be during the  
week, then I could make it only after 4pm eastern time.  Of course,  
don't change the time just for me - I think I've already made my  
views clear about dropping support for the older releases, so if it  
comes to a vote, count me for dropping them ASAP.

David, thanks for the constant prodding about this stuff; I think  
it's been needed :)

- -Jeff

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