On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:05:14PM -0500, Carlos Villegas wrote: > Is anyone already drafting this press release? There has been no > reply to this on the mailing list. If not I can start doing something, > but it would be very primitive, since I've only been on the mailing list > for a couple of weeks, mainly as an "observer", and have not joined the > irc channels or used the wiki. If no one else is doing it or I don't get > a reply to this, I'll start working on it but you have been warned, that > it will probably require a lot of work... I did warn you... It's meant as a starting point only. The discussion is now open. ______________________ start of DRAFT _____________________________ Press Release DRAFT: Who: The Fedora Legacy Team, made out of volunteers. What: The Fedora Legacy Proyect is an ongoing effort led and maintained by volunteers, which aims to provide security and critical bugfix errata for older versions of Red Hat Linux (RHL) and Fedora Core releases (FC) after their official End of Life, thereby allowing a longer effective life of those releases, closer to the lifes that most IT departments are used to having with the RHL versions that are currently in use. The proyect is still gathering volunteers and resources, as well as drafting the policies and security requirements, other press releases will be published as the proyect progresses. With current resources and volunteers it seems possible to start providing erratas since January for RHL 7.3 and RHL 8.0 when these releases will reach their End of Life by Red Hat Inc. How: Groups of maintainers will produce the errata for their packages, these errata will undergo some classification and QA to be then released. Digital signatures will ensure the integrity of the process. Errata will only be created to fix security problems as well as serious bugs, no features will be introduced on the Erratas, unless they are required for the future management of erratas on that release. Where: Information on the proyect is currently available from the following places: 1. http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy 2. fedora-legacy-list Mailing list, for subscriptions and archive: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list 3. #fedora-legacy on irc.freenode.net When: Now. Feel free to join in. __ Fedora Legacy is an independent entity and not officially sanctioned by Red Hat, Inc. ______________________ end of DRAFT _____________________________ Carlos
