On 01/10/2011 04:57 PM, Tom Callaway wrote: > On 01/10/2011 10:51 AM, "JÃhann B. GuÃmundsson" wrote: >> On 01/10/2011 03:10 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>> Heck, large chunks of Fedora's own infrastructure run on RHEL. >> >> Is there any particular reason why we are doing that? >> >> Does it not discredits Fedora as a viable server platform if we do that? >> >> Honestly should we be eating our own dog food and all that? > > We do this because the lifecycle of Fedora is not compatible with > providing and maintaining a long life hosting infrastructure. Does that > mean that Fedora is not an ideal platform for server deployments lasting > longer than a year and a half? Yes, in my humble opinion. You are expecting users to live with this life-cycle (on servers and clients), so you telling us that Fedora is unsuitable for Fedora's own servers seems rather poor to me. > Don't get me wrong, the lifecycle of Fedora is great for many things, > but the lifecycle of RHEL is far more appropriate for our hosting and > infrastructure needs. Don't get me wrong - Fedora's life-cycle works very well, even on servers. Ralf _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
