Re: Important information regarding the merger of core and extras, and what this means to Legacy

[Eric Rostetter <rostetter mail utexas edu>]

Quoting Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com>:

> See my blog regarding the future of Legacy as a project.  Please remember
> these are just proposals and not final solutions.  A wiki page will follow
> soon.

First I would like to say to those who say Fedora Legacy has failed, that
it _did_ work (i.e. didn't fail) for the most critical time period and the
most critical OS version (RHL 7-9, FC1).  If it has failed, or is failing,
it must not be forgotten that before it failed it worked exceedingly well.

Second, I'm fairly comfortable with saying that if FC goes to a 13 month
support cycle, FL is basically not needed anymore.  IMHO, people can upgrade
once a year when presented with a known/documented release cycle, and known
documented alternatives.

Now, I don't know that FC will change, or if FL is needed any more even
if FC doesn't change.  But I do know that FL saved my life by being there
when I needed it, and while I don't really need it any more I'm forever
grateful to it for being there when I did need it.

--
Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

Go Longhorns!