plans for long term support releases?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> 
>>>
>> Right now it may be the same thing, but if Fedora continues to evolve 
>> to something *larger* than a bleeding edge RHEL/CentOS, as there's 
>> been much talk about recently (realistically or not?!?), it would be 
>> great to have something to handle these cases with a real Fedora.
> 
> I am not sure what bleeding edge RHEL means. Do you believe Fedora can 
> work out a even longer lifecycle? What exactly are the benefits to users?
> 

By bleeding edge RHEL I mean what will essentially be snapshot and 
matured into RHEL and later CentOS.

>> I completely agree that right now, for my servers, RHEL/CentOS is 
>> probably exactly what I'm looking for. And that's also why most my 
>> servers actually run RHEL today.
>>
>> Also, this may not be doable (right now or ever), I'm mentioning it as 
>> something to be *considered*, because there are enough of users out 
>> there who could do with longer periods of active maintenance for their 
>> servers.
> 
> Question though is about not just enough users but enough contributors 
> to do the work.
> 

Of course. Things all have to add up.
Still. is this even something we want for Fedora? It's quite possible 
that we just don't want to do it, for any number of the problems brought 
up throughout this thread. Then let's declare LTS out-of-scope for 
Fedora and move along. Otherwise, lets see what *could* be done about it. :)

/Thomas