One have to say the hard truth - only the latest fedora release is supported by many maintainers because that's what they/we use. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthieu Gautier" <mgautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 9:19:41 PM > Subject: Re: New release cycle proposal (was Rolling release model philosophy (was ...)) > > Le 06/11/2012 20:05, Peter Lemenkov a écrit : > > 2012/11/6 Matthieu Gautier <mgautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> So you not a maintainer but you still suggesting that we, > >>> maintainers, > >>> should do 2 times more job by supporting several simultaneous > >>> Fedora > >>> versions instead of 3 right now for more than two years. And > >>> that's > >>> all just because you think it's a good idea to spend my personal > >>> time > >>> on the rreleases I'm not using anymore. > >> No, I never suggest that. Preview versions have a timelife of 6mo > >> instead of 12. > >> Stable version have a lifetime of 24mo (12mo for regular updates) > >> instead of 12. > > Exactly what I'm saying - two times more job. So who's gonna pay us > > for the time wasted on supporting distributions we're not using > > personally? > > > > I think you didn't get the maintainers motivation (except those RH > > fellows whoi just did the job) - we're doing our part because we're > > using Fedora daily. What you're suggesting isn't fun anymore. So > > somebody should pay for that. > > Hum.. It should be some misunderstanding somewhere : > > For security updates: > - First half of the year : 2 versions to maintain (+1 version in dev) > => > As usual > - Second half of the year : 3 versions to maintain (+1 version in > dev) > => Ok, more work, but definitively not 2 times more > > For other updates: > - First half of the year : 1 version to maintain (+1 in dev) => Less > work > - Second half of the year : 2 versions to maintain (+1 in dev) => As > usual > > *Regards* > Matthieu Gautier > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
