On Friday 27 of August 2010 07:03:06 Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > On 8/26/2010 11:53 PM, Michal Hlavinka wrote: > > 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 > > At the time the install images are composed the release's EOL date has > not yet been decided, so we would be stuck with guessing a date and > hoping it will be somewhat close. > > Fedora releases are either "Supported" or "Unsupported." Unless the > community wants to define some third, "Sort-of-supported" state then > there should be no functional changes in the installer's and > repositories' behaviors until after the release goes "Unsupported." Yes, but the message does not have to be "Warning: Fedora N is no longer supported", it can be something like "Warning: Fedora relase is usualy supported 13 months, you are probably going to install unsupported version or version that is going to be unsupported after a few days. You can check this on fedoraproject.org.... Check get.fedoraproject.org for more recent version." I think the wording is not the main problem -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
