End of life for FC1?

[John Francis Lee]

It is beginning to look as though rh has adopted the m$ mo of purposely
releasing a buggy product. If you want one without bugs you gotta pay...
and pay... and pay.

On พ., 2004-06-09 at 21:06, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:12:07 +0300, Niilo Kajander <nk at kajander.fi> wrote:
> > > AFAIR when FC3 get released, FC1 "support" will be dropped. After that
> > > the Fedora Legacy Project will take over and provide unofficial updates
> > > for some time. See http://www.fedoralegacy.org/.
> > 
> > There is no actual stated date yet for when fc1 will go eol. there is
> > a 2-3 month
> > window after fc2 release when fc1 eol is expected. Do NOT expect fc3
> > to come out before fc1 eol. FC1 will most likely happen during fc3
> > testing phase.  As soon as the fc3 testing schedule gets
> > created....fc1 eol will most likely be set as well.
> 
> Considering all of the problems that FC 2 has been having, I wonder if 
> Redhat would consider changing the published schedule so that a version of 
> FC wouldn't EOL until the second-following version was released.  IOW, FC 
> 1 shouldn't EOL until FC 3 is released, and FC 2 shouldn't EOL until FC 4 
> is released.  That might give folks more peace of mind, that they aren't 
> forced to upgrade to a buggy release like FC 2.
> 
> Ben
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John Francis Lee <jfl at robinlea.com>