LWN article about us

[dan]

Steve Stavropoulos wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> 
>>One issue raised here is whether we should be dropping support for 7.3
>>by now. Documentated end of support for 7.3 according to
>><http://www.fedoralegacy.org/about/faq.php> is the middle of this year
>>(ie 1.5 years after Red Hat EOL). I would say that we should drop it no
>>later than the introduction of FC2 support in March, though, because
>>three distros is already fairly unmanagable. I'd be happy to drop it
>>earlier, though.
> 
> 
>  RedHat 7.3 is the only "real" server distro fedoralegacy currently
> supports. All others are meant to be more desktop machines than 7.3. I'd
> say to drop fedora 1 if things are tight in resources. You don't really
> need so much time to upgrade your personal desktop and if you have fedora
> 1 as a server then you must _really_ know what you 're doing and you
> should be alright left alone :>
>  Of course it all depends on what the people that actually do work for 
> fedora legacy use. Are there any delays on getting packages ready for 7.3? 
> Is rh 7.3 slowing things down?
> 

While we're kindof on the subject here - one thing I don't really recall 
ever seeing is upgreade guides for mammoth overhauls, from say RH7.3 to 
FC1 - if that's even possible.

As much as we (I say "we" as part of the Legacy group, unfortunately not 
so much as a contributor :( ) would like to part ways with some of the 
very old distros and the ones that are 1.5 yrs past RH's official EOL, 
we will encounter uproar and outcry and, well, just a bunch of really 
angry people.  I think that the introduction of documents that detail 
and describe these overhauls and/or procedures would benefit our move to 
progress with expiring older distros, and help with us EOL'ing the EOL's.

Since I know very little about actually creating packages as most of you 
other guys know in and out, but rather having a fairly decent knowledge 
of the inner-workings of the Linux system, I would be more than happy to 
contribute to such guides and documents.

I will be attempting this shortly from FC1 to FC2, which I plan to 
document in detail, as to hopefully help others who may be wanting to do 
the same thing.  I realize that a clean install is much preferred over 
an upgrade, but in some cases it's absolutely necessary - which also 
explains why the Legacy project has so many people interested.  Because 
sometimes you just can't re-install.

Thoughts?

Thanks
-dant