On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Scott Williams wrote:
I'm starting a project to package security updates for EOL versions of
Fedora and was interested in possibly using the word "Fedora" within
the domain URL. I intend to carefully follow the guidelines in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines and am seeking
the consent of the Fedora board before registering any URLs.
I'm not particularly interested in debating the domain name question,
because Paul and the rest of the FPB have taken care of that.
What I am curious to know, Scott, is what you think has changed in the
community or in the scope of what you want to do w/ EOL security updates
that will make this project more compelling for participation than
Fedora Legacy.
Fedora Legacy was successful for quite a while, and its shutdown was not
a failure on its part, but rather a realization of two key points:
(1) It was in the better interest of the larger Fedora Project to have
the talents that were doing Fedora Legacy more focused on the new stuff
happening in Rawhide or in other parts of the Project. The opportunity
cost of Fedora Legacy was quite high.
(2) For people who wanted the legacy support, an enterprise distro,
which already had process and infrastructure to provide that longer
suppot was a more efficient choice. In other words, Fedora's niche,
combined with the larger Red Hat Enterprise (and rebuilds) ecosystem
around it, meant that folks were spending a ton of time on Fedora legacy
work for not a whole lot of payoff.
I'm not trying to discourage you. I'm simply trying to get a sense as
to whether you think some of these points have changed, or perhaps are
no longer valid.
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I'm curious how much further you are going to try to extend the life of
older Fedora distros via security updates. What are you starting with?
--Max
Max,
Here's our scope and guidelines document we came up with in our meeting: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc7dcczk_2fxtsctdq&hl=en
~Scott
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