Friday Flames - What to do with RHL7.3/9 and FC1/2

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Jun 10, 2006, at 12:18 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 6/9/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:53 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> > As we approach FC6 Test2, we should make a decision wrt RHL7.3/9  
>> and
>> > FC1/2.  We've been supporting these releases for a while now, and
>> > they've grown pretty long in the tooth, even by Legacy  
>> standards.  Our
>> > lifetime policy would dictate that FC1 should be gone already,  
>> and FC2
>> > would go when we pick up FC4, so that we're only supporting FC3  
>> and FC4.
>> > The RHL releases are a different matter.
>> >
>>
>> +1 for killing rhl 7.3, 9, fc1 and fc2 when fc4 comes in.
>>
>
> I think so too. If people need support for RHL-7.3/9 they need to pay
> someone to support it or move to something else. The amount of time
> trying to get a patched set done, tested, and finished is a full-time
> job for people.
>

I agree with this - let's do away with RHL and FC1/FC2 support once  
we take on FC4.  Jesse has already given many good reasons for doing  
so, so I won't repeat them here again :)

-Jeff