Hi
The current proposal
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess) of changing
the Fedora lifecycle to support release N until N+2 is releases or
approximately 13+ months is pretty good but I am wondering if we can go
a bit further. My suggestion would be look at a differentiated life
cyle between Fedora server and desktop variants in the upcoming release
or have a policy as follows
First six months - Feature additions, bug and security fixes six months
Next six months - Only bug and security fixes
Next six months - Only critical security fixes*
For reference, here is what some other distributions do. Couldnt find
proper information for many other distributions.
OpenSUSE
2 years
http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime
Mandriva
12 months for desktop. 18 months for base and 24 months for server.
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/productlifetime
Ubuntu
18 months of security only updates for regular releases.
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
[*]
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-list/2006-October/msg00006.html
Rahul
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