[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: System

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:39, David J. Bianco wrote:
> That's an emphatic YES from me.  The Legacy Project won't have the
> manpower to go around adding in new features to old distros.
>  Security patches will take enough work as it is, I think.
>
> I would further suggest our policy include two additional
> clarifications:
>
>    * If we must fix bugs which are not security-related, fix the high
> priority items that cause work stoppage, data loss, etc.  Don't fix
> unimportant bugs (simple cosmetic items, rarely used features, etc).
>  Let those be fixed in newer Fedora releases.
>    * Don't add new features no matter how popular they are, unless
> they are necessary to resolve security or high-priority functionality
> bugs.
>
> My idea is that once things are handed over to the Legacy Project,
> they should be considered more or less "frozen".  It's not that I
> want to lock out Legacy users from newer features, it's just that I
> believe these releases should be looked upon as "stable" and not
> mucked with unnecessarily. I doubt the Project will have a lot of
> extra QA resources, so we'd need to concentrate them where they can
> do the most good for the least effort.

I concur completely, and will add these to the Wiki.

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