On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 18:59 -0500, Scott Williams wrote: > Good evening list, > > I run the #Fedora-EOL channel and would like to get a group together > to work on backporting only security patches to EOL versions. It will > be based on Production 3 of the Red Hat Enterprise life cycle > (http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/). To summarize it, > only security patches with no intent to update functionality or add > hardware support for older versions. Updates would likely come in > light monthly spurts, similar to EPEL's release cycle. > > I know this has been talked about in length here about whether or not > this should be done, but I'm interested in organizing community > members who are interested to start working on this. > > We would need two things to get started: > > #1 Hosting. I have time but not money. We would need to have a > common place to collaborate on work and a place for repos. > > #2 Contributors. Anyone who is interested in helping, even if they > don't have much time to spare. > > > I'm usually around in #Fedora-EOL. If I'm idling, feel free to leave > me a message, and I'll get back in contact with you as soon as I can. > > Thanks, > Scott (vwbusguy) > Scott, I'm willing to consider offering hosting for this purpose. Can you let me know a bit more about what is required? As I'm not a hard-core programmer (just PHP & general web development), I doubt I can help patching or fixing packages, but hosting is one area I feel I can contribute, God-willing. ________________________________________________________________________ Basil Mohamed Gohar abu_hurayrah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.basilgohar.com
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