Fedora release lifecyle

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 14:58, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Gack. Is this really what we're trying to accomplish? This all
>> goes back to what is Fedora. It is not all things to all people - I
>> truly feel if you want multiple years of maintenance, you should be
>> looking at things like RHEL (or other prominent enterprise linux
>> distributions.)
> 
> +1.  13 months I think is a great middle ground.  Anything longer and you're 
> really talking about a different product and really hampering the ability to 
> get new things into new releases.
> 

I am sure there is a lot of room between 13 months and 7 years. If you 
see the plan about only critical security fixes, thats about 20 updates 
an year or just about *10 updates* for 6 months. Again see 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-list/2006-October/msg00006.html. 
   For a desktop variant an year worth of updates might be good enough 
but does anyone really think we should have a server variant the same 
way instead of putting out a dozen more updates and extending the life 
cycle?

Rahul