On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:58:52 +0200 Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wanted to draw your attention to a feature I've proposed for Fedora > 12, mysteriously called Extended Life Cycle. > > You can find more details at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Extended_Life_Cycle > > Kind regards, Some general comments: - Have you talked with the last folks that attempted this? https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2009-February/msg00030.html http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc7dcczk_2fxtsctdq&hl=en - The issue I have with this plan (and the others very like it) is that if you say "we will just do updates for the things we have people willing to do updates" it means the entire end of life distro is not covered and the likelyhood of an outstanding security issue is quite high. There is a chicken and egg issue here where unless there is enough coverage we shouldn't do it, but we can't find out if there is enough coverage without doing it. Doing it in such a way that it fails just gives everyone a bad name and feeling, IMHO. - An indeterminate time is also bad IMHO. How can these corporations plan if they don't know how much time you are adding here? - Have you considered leveraging the 'critical path' proposal? Try and up front get enough folks to cover all the critical path packages and expand from there? - How many people are on board with this? Do you have guidelines for what will be updated or not? what packages? Version updates ok? Or only security fixes? - Are there any Corporations that specifically asked for this? Would they be willing to provide any resources to the effort? Just a few thoughts... > Jeroen van Meeuwen > -kanarip kevin
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