lwn article on the death of Fedora Legacy

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 10/19/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 11:44, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > When Jesse Keating worked at Pogo, that was largely true, but with his
> > duties at RH and with his new kid, it doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
> > I'm sure this is not Jesse's fault -- there needs to be commitment from
> > above, and that's clearly not the case.
> >
> > I think this is really unfortunate, because it makes a big gap in the
> > Fedora ecosystem. This will be largely filled by migration to RHEL-rebuild
> > distros like CentOS, which is well and good (and particularly painless from
> > the end-user point of few) but bad for Fedora.
> >
> > Without a functioning lifespan of over a year, Fedora is only practically
> > useful as an enthusiast, bleeding-edge distro. That's only supposed to be
> > _part_ of its mission.
>
> Here is what I think can happen.
>
> A) Kill off RHL now.  Stop trying to do stuff there when we just don't have
> the man power or the volunteers.
>
> B) Move to using Extras infrastructure for building packages.  They're ready
> for us for FC3 and FC4.
>
> C) Move to Core style updates process.  Spin a possible update, toss it
> in -testing.  If nobody says boo after a period of time, release the darn
> thing.  If somebody finds it to be broken, fix it and resubmit.
>

D) Move to Core style plan. Figure out what core packages we are going
to backport for, and what packages we are just going to push the
latest stuff for.

Mozilla -> Seamonkey
Gaim -> Gaim latest

etc.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"