On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:39, David J. Bianco wrote: > That's an emphatic YES from me. The Legacy Project won't have the > manpower to go around adding in new features to old distros. > Security patches will take enough work as it is, I think. > > I would further suggest our policy include two additional > clarifications: > > * If we must fix bugs which are not security-related, fix the high > priority items that cause work stoppage, data loss, etc. Don't fix > unimportant bugs (simple cosmetic items, rarely used features, etc). > Let those be fixed in newer Fedora releases. > * Don't add new features no matter how popular they are, unless > they are necessary to resolve security or high-priority functionality > bugs. > > My idea is that once things are handed over to the Legacy Project, > they should be considered more or less "frozen". It's not that I > want to lock out Legacy users from newer features, it's just that I > believe these releases should be looked upon as "stable" and not > mucked with unnecessarily. I doubt the Project will have a lot of > extra QA resources, so we'd need to concentrate them where they can > do the most good for the least effort. I concur completely, and will add these to the Wiki. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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