On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:23 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:50 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've been following a very interesting discussion in fedora-list > about > > the recent transfer of FC3 to Fedora Legacy. > > > > Following Rahul's suggestion, I'm starting this discussion in > -devel. > > > > I'm asking the FC foundation to consider the following: > > > > 1. Fedora's policy dictates that old releases (Current - 2) will be > > retired once the new release hits Test2. > > I'm missing in your whole reasoning the link between the transfer to > legacy and upgrading. You imply it, but you don't explain the causal > relationship, which I think isn't there. > > The policy actually sort of is "a few months after the next release so > that people can see it being stable enough". A good anchor for that > "few > months" is -test2 release. I think the problem is that some people see the support as current version + two versions - one beta = test2 release whereas you are seeing it as: current version + one version + a few months = test2 release If you are in the first camp then it is easy to ask for support to be extended so that there is a window of a single day where you can go from current version to current version plus two. I know I fell into the first camp (even though I keep up to date with the current version) and it wasn't until I saw your email that I even noticed the rational of the second camp. I would suggest that a better explanation of how the support window was settled upon should be created and publicised as much as possible. Keith. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
