[Fedora-legacy-list] DRAFT for Press Release 1.2

[Rob Prince]

Draft revision 1.2
Fixed some grammar, changed some sentence structure.

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  Press Release DRAFT:

  Who:

  The Fedora Legacy Team, made out of volunteers.

  What:

  The Fedora Legacy Project is an ongoing effort led and maintained by
  volunteers, which aims to provide security and critical bug fix errata
  for older versions of Red Hat Linux (RHL) and Fedora Core releases (FC),
  after their official End of Life. This allows a longer effective
  life for those releases, and is closer to the lifecycle that most IT
departments have with the RHL versions that they currently use.

  The project is still gathering volunteers and resources, as well as
  drafting policies and security requirements. Other press
  releases will be published as the project progresses. With current
  resources and volunteers it seems possible to start providing
  errata’s starting January 2004 for RHL 7.3 and RHL 8.0, just as these
releases reach their End of Life by Red Hat Inc.

  How:

  Groups of maintainers will produce the errata for their packages;
  these errata will undergo some classification and QA before being
  released. Digital signatures will ensure the integrity of the
  process.

  Errata will only be created to fix security problems as well as
  serious bugs; no features will be introduced on the Errata’s, unless
  they are required for the future management of errata’s on that
  release.

  Where:

  Information on the project is currently available from the following
  places:

  1. http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy
  2. fedora-legacy-list Mailing list, for subscriptions and archive:
  https://lists.dulug

  When:

  Now. Feel free to join in.

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Fedora Legacy is an independent entity and not officially sanctioned
by Red Hat, Inc.