Hi, Sorry, confusion regarding the release date and "end of official support" date. But in general, That doesn't look like a bad idea, a strategy similar to linux kernel maintenance. Every will gain from the strategy: Redhat RPM lovers will stay happily with FC/FCLegacy with longer release support time; Redhat Inc. will attract more users, I mean, both pure enthusiastic and small business users. Currently FC just scares aways small business users to Debian/Gentoo because the former have so short a lifespan. Without real business users play in these FC test-beds RHEL will die away shortly. FC Legacy support group have no reasons to object the strategy as well? :) There are lesser releases to support but better support for supported ones. --- Robinson Tiemuqinke <hahaha_30k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Glad that FC6 is out today for download/playing. > > But FC5 and FC6 are released too closely -- only > three months apart. while FC4 had released over one > year before FC5 appeared. Consequently, a lot of > people and small organizations, as far as I know, > have > installed bunches of "free" FC4 boxes instead of > FC5. > Thereafter, they will directly go to FC6 instead of > FC4->FC5->FC6, taking into the consideration of that > each upgrade from one release to another one is not > a > tedious work. > > Based on the above fact, one idea will flow out > naturally: based on the limited resourses of fedora > legacy groups, and facing losing users because > limited > legacy support is flatted to each FC legacy release. > Is it possible to support only some subset of > releases? We can take the following strategy: > > 1, for each odd-numbered release, take it as a > alpha > version release, and don't support it with limited > fedora legacy resources. So FC5, FC7, FC9 will not > go > into fedora legacy. and they will be in > official(redhat) support status in no more than half > year, or even a quarter. > > 2, for each even-numbered release, take it as a > post-beta version release. these version will stay > in > official support for more than one year like FC4, > then > after its ending of official support, the release > will > go to fedora legacy for another one and half years > or > even longer based on resources. > > 3, for the support even-numbered releases, both > i386/x86_64 arches are supported. because nowadays > all > new machines are amd64 or Intel EM64T, while > original > i386 is still in use. > > This way we can bring FC releases back into the > free > RH years since RH6.0 to RH9, helpful for FC, RH and > users. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > fedora-legacy-list mailing list > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
