Matthew Miller wrote:
> I think what killed it was that lots of people were interested in
> continuing on Red Hat Linux 7.x and Red Hat Linux 9 indefinitely, but
> not nearly as many were interested in extended life for the early
> Fedora Core releases. *shrug*
That was a problem, but without the insane amount of red tape, it wouldn't
have been a showstopper. It does not take much manpower to take the patches
that are being applied to the old release n, apply them to the less popular
intermediate release n+1, build the result and let it be automatically
pushed to stable. The problem was that:
* Fedora Legacy required every update for every release to be separately
QAed, kinda like Bodhi does now. This already does not work for Fedora n-1
now (just look at how long it takes to get even security updates for
Fedora n-1 through Bodhi), so there is no way it can work for n-k, k≥2.
* For that QA, a Bugzilla instance was used, but the builtin authentication
of Bugzilla was not trusted for some reason, so all comments were required
to be manually GPG-signed! (There is of course no UI in Bugzilla that
automates that in any way.) Needless to say, very few testers were willing
to comply with such a ridiculously high barrier to entry.
If you just let the changes get pushed directly to the repository, things
will just work.
Kevin Kofler
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