nails in coffins? Re: Openssl updates

Russ Lavoie rlavoie at ncsoft.com
Wed Nov 29 19:29:51 UTC 2006


I would like to see it go further myself.  All the work you guys do is
greatly appreciated by myself and probably my others as well.

Russ

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fedora-legacy-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of David
Eisenstein
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 1:26 PM
To: lists at benjamindsmith.com; Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project
Subject: nails in coffins? Re: Openssl updates

Benjamin Smith wrote:
> On Saturday 18 November 2006 01:20, Florian La Roche wrote:
> 
>>Interest in Fedora Legacy has slowed down. You can find some
>>FC4 updates at http://www.jur-linux.org/rpms/fc-updates/4/ ,
>>but some updates will probably also soon show up at
>>http://fedoralegacy.org/
> 
> 
> I can see why this would be the case. I don't want to knock your
efforts in 
> any way (very much appreciated!) but the truth is that FL exists to
extend 
> the short shelf-life of Fedora. And anything that demands a longer
shelf-life 
> I've moved over to CentOS or RHEL. I have but one remaining machine
using 
> Fedora as a server (running FC1, in a fairly protected environment)
that will 
> be upgraded to CentOS 5 once it's released. 
> 
> FL was more or less born when those who started using Fedora to
replace RHL on 
> the servers were bitten by Fedora's short lifespan. (myself included)
Even 
> with FL's efforts, the life expectancy is still on the short side... I

> currently plan against using Fedora in any long-term environment where
FL 
> would even be needed... and I'm sure I'm not unique in that! 
> 
> -Ben 

Quite understandable, Ben.  And this is why I am looking into stepping
down
from continuing being a Fedora Legacy maintainer/builder.  Neither me,
nor
Jesse Keating, nor Marc Deslauriers nor any of the others can do this
alone.
 It is just too much work for too little reward and too many headaches
for
those who care.

If there were a magic wand I could wave . . . .   but I don't have the
acumen
or skill to compel folks to be contributors nor the patience to more
clearly
document the processes that we use (and that I learned how they work
just by
doing them and making many, many mistakes).  When people don't step up,
this
is what happens.

I wish I could do more.  But really, I don't know that that wish is
realistic.  Does anyone else wish more could be done?  Or do we just
kill the
project?

	Warm regards,

	David Eisenstein

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