On 1/18/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Note that Fedora Core 3 release updates maintained by Red Hat has > already been extended for a few months. Red Hat has been maintaining > updates on Fedora Core 3 for an year and two months as opposed to > elevent months of updates for Fedora Core 2 due to prolonged development > release cycle of Fedora Core 5. So its not a question of extending the > release cycle for Red Hat but managing two releases in additional to > working on the development code for the next subsequent major release > along with Red Hat Enterprise Linux development and maintenance. We > could even shorten the development time on the subsequent release and > thereby reducing the time spend by Red Hat spends on older release. This > is in effect does what you request but results in a even shorter amount > of updates provided by Red Hat for any given release of Fedora Core. In > my opinion that is not desirable. > > What are users really concerned about?. Are they concerned about > receiving continuous updates from the Fedora Project or the quality of > the Fedora Legacy updates?. I have been completed defeated in my attempt > to get the answers from fedora-list on this one or maybe I am being too > thick. If it is just the idea of continuously providing updates by > enabling a smooth transition, I am very much in favor of providing a > legacy repository enabled by default or pushing a yum update that > enables it just before the transition of a release from core to legacy. > Since users are already trusting community members to do good quality > packaging work in Fedora Extras I dont see a single reason not to do > this for legacy. On the other hand, if the users are concerned about > the quality of the updates from Fedora legacy project, the answer is not > adding additional burden of release cycle maintenance to Red Hat but > stepping up to improve the QA and packaging work done within legacy. > Hi Rahul, Would it be possible for redhat to just extend security fixes for FCx until FC(x+2) comes out? I think if I was using an older release this is something I would really want. n0dalus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
