On Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:31:37 PM MST Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:07:21AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > EOL is not, literally, EOL. EOL just means the complete end of support, in > > commercial products. Still doesn't mean systems with that version > > installed > > cease to exist. In Fedora, it simply means that it gets little attention, > > but contributors are free to do what they like, for the most part. > > Systems with that version continue to live. > > Sure, but it also means there's no way to push updates for it, bugs > aren't allowed for that version and support channels are likely to just > tell you to upgrade if theres a difficult problem. > > See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora-EOL-Support > > > Pretty soon, in fact as of the next release, we'll have users who are > > actually stuck on an EOL release. > > There will always be such users for a variety of reasons. > > kevin So long as people are willing to maintain it, why restrict peoples' ability to work on something, especially while users are stuck on that version, or forced to move elsewhere if they cannot get a fix and cannot upgrade? -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
