Re: Fedora Lifecycles: imagine longer-term possibilities

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 08:05:54PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > But there are some good cases for a longer lifecycle. For one thing,
> > this has been a really big blocker for getting Fedora shipped on
> > hardware. Second, there are people who really could be happily running
> > Fedora but since we don't check the tickbox, they don't even look at us
> > seriously. I'd love to change these things. To do that, we need
> > something that lasts for 36-48 months.
[...]
> There are a lot of possibilities, but it is also that "something that
> lasts for 36-48 months" probably means something different to everyone
> involved.
> 
> To some set it means "Whatever was shipped on Day0 had only better get
> backported fixes and maybe, maybe minor updates", to others it means
> "well it shouldn't have any major api/abi updates in those 36-48
> months.. " to the "so this just means it should be a rolling update as
> long as everything always works or resets easily".  Is this
> conversation completely blue-sky or are there boundaries we should
> watch out for so we aren't arguing over "well why not make Fedora a
> rebuild of Debian using a deb2rpm tool since they already are LTS" and
> other people saying why not <fill in other LTS distro here>

Mostly blue sky -- let's generate ideas! -- but let's also stay within
reasonable possibilities, and also, you know, keeping it Fedora.
Particularly, I'm pretty sure about the goals: 1. getting Fedora desktop and
IoT shipped on systems and 2. expanding the community by getting Fedora into
places which don't consider us because we're perceived as too fleeting.


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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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