I've read the article and I have to agree with LWN: "Keeping a distribution current with security patches is hard, tedious, and often thankless work. It's the sort of work that people tend to demand to be paid to do. Projects like Debian and Gentoo demonstrate that this job can be done, and done well, on a volunteer basis, however. But it would appear that the requisite effort is not there for the Fedora Legacy project." "People ... might want to think about what they can do to help the Fedora Legacy project get its process restarted." ... Taking a look at the bottom line at Dom's extremely helpful summary page (http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~dom/legacy/issues.txt) seems to tell the story: Packages that have been verified and should be fully released ------------------------------------------------------------- xpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2186 gpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2195 Packages waiting to be built for updates-testing ------------------------------------------------ yum - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1604 libxpm - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2075 openmotif - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2143 lesstiff - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2142 rp-pppoe - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2116 gtk2 - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2073 openoffice - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2074 squirrelmail - http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2290 qt - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2002 sharutils - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2155 sox - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1945 gdk-pixbuf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2005 ImageMagick - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2052 (but more?) cdrecord - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2058 cups - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2127 iptables - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2252 nfs-utils - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2339 zlib - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2043 modutils - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2364 vim - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2343 xpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2352 gpdf - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2353 ruby - https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2007 ... The bottleneck, to me, seems obvious. Unless the Fedora Legacy Project can get items built into updates-testing (and released) in a timely manner, then this project is doomed to fail. I have tried to contribute in the past, but have become discouraged about the timeliness of the releases, especially for the tripwire release. Issues concerning releases for 7.3 got bundled with 9, holding up the release for this and other packages. I know for those who volunteer that this can be a thankless job, and for those of you who have contributed, thank you. Perhaps a discussion either on the list or in another forum of how to get those who seem to be regular contributers (or potential ones) to fix the process. On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 18:46, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > An article about us was posted a couple of weeks ago that I didn't see > before: http://lwn.net/Articles/119892/ > > "Whither Fedora Legacy". > > Cheers,
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