On 12/13/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Nottingham wrote: > Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >> If we are not planning on having Fedora as a stable server, we should >> not release a server variant. If we are going to do desktop and server >> variants, we should put some incrementally more effort into actually >> have something useful in each of these variants rather than just a >> different bunch of packages and stop going back and forth on what we are >> trying to do. > > So, the only differentiation that's possible for a Server is the lifecycle? > I don't buy that. There are various other ways to differentiate a server variant but extending the life cycle is in many cases much needed. It expands the scope of the variant being more useful than just a precursor of RHEL. I think we should atleast seriously consider serving that need. Giving that we already do backports, the merge of core and extras and the critical security fixes only policy for the last six months I suggested it does appear doable.
The question that needs to be answered is who is the customer and what are they going to pay for this? Payment does not need to be cash, but it would help. The reason is that someone is going to have to pay for the engineering, qa, documentation, bandwidth, etc. The past has shown that Legacy gets volunteers who are interested in certain packages and/or releases. Once that release is up, they are no longer interested as they have usually transitioned their stuff to Centos, Ubuntu, etc. There are people who want longer release times, but I have not seen that want translated into either cash or volunteer time. My opinion is that while I would like to see 18 months of support, I am already getting 4 free boons from Red Hat: 1) regularly compiled and tested bits called Fedora X (versus just rawhide), 2) 11-13 months of security updates and some enhancement updates, 3) source code for their RHEL which people can get compiled bits from Centos/Whitebox/EatAtJoesLinux, and 4) source code for security updates for RHEL for 7 years (where you can get the compiled bits from EatAtJoes Enterprise Linux). For anything more than that.. I need to supply something to the bargain. -- 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" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
