On Thursday 26 of August 2010 21:21:53 Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > We probably need to attack this trend more aggressively, like putting > > expiration dates into the installer after which it'll just refuse to > > install, stuffing fedora-release-n+1 into the Fedora n updates repository > > at Fedora n's EOL date etc. > > Not only is this disingenuous, but it also contradicts Fedora's > "Freedom" policy. Adding a big fat warning message to the installer, > however, is much less of a problem and gets the message across just as > effectively. Just make sure that the "expiration date" is far enough > out in the future that we can be certain that it will occur after the > release's EOL date since we don't know when that will be at the time of > image creation. I don't think it should be far enough. It should be some time before EOL happens. What's the point installing and configuring new system that will EOL tomorrow / after one week? But still... +1 to warning message in the installer -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
