Delay? Looks bad for Fedora

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 17:26, nosp wrote:
> > Is it the intention of the Legacy group to essentially enable a
> > similar maintenance/sec/patch schedule to Debian/Stable and
> > FreeBSD?
>
> There was definitely some serious conversation a few weeks ago and I
> think the fact that the Legacy project made it to the Fedora
> Terminology page is a good indication it's serious.  Anyone involved
> in that want to speak up?

Our current goal is to support a given FC release through the next 2 
releases, and a short time into the third release after.  A life span 
of about 17~19 months can be expected for a given FC release.  RH will 
cover the first 7~9 months, Legacy will cover the next 10~ months.

Think of it as a 1-2-3-out method.

Nov: FC 1 is released.
May: FC 2 is released.
Jul: RH drops FC 1 support, Legacy picks it up.
Nov: FC 3 is released
Jan: RH drops FC 2 support, Legacy picks it up, release FC1 becomes 
deprecated.
May: FC 4 is released
Jul: RH drops FC 3 support, Legacy picks it up.
Jul~Aug: Legacy drops support for FC1

lather, rinse, repeat.

RHL 7.3 and 9 are special cases, and will continue to be supported by 
Legacy for as long as there is community interest in said errata.

-- 
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