Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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.
3) and 4) while beneficial is irrelevant if you would consider Fedora as a independent distribution. I am not bargaining. I consider 18 months as a good balance and I am putting up a RFE on that. That's generally considered a contribution by itself.
If you would consider the current effort as a merge between core,extras and legacy, we need to look at letting open the possibility of a longer lifecycle since the lower barrier to entry aided by the focus on a single infrastructure might help us get more volunteers involved now.
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