Peter Arremann <loony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > I agree with the original poswer that - no matter if technically there is a > good reason or not - people should be given a good choice of when to upgrade > and to what release. Most people simply don't see staying with a legacy > system as a choice. They had the choice when FC4 came out, or to wait for a while to look how it turned out, try it on a few systems, and then take the plunge. Or they could upgrade now. In any case, this was announced long before, it's not that they have been caught unaware. And the concern about thinly spread manpower has merit (and has nothing to do with RHEL, it would be exactly the same if Fedora stood alone): Juggling FC3 + FC4 + last /hard/ push to get FC5 out the door without showstopper bugs /is/ a lot of work. Sure, it might not translate into many new RPMs for FC3, but it means people looking over bug reports, wondering if some new bug reports could be relevant (security-wise) for FC3, etc anyway. Also, nudging the users forward is part ot the plan, I guess... it's not that you would have to keep RH 7.3 because upgrading is too expensive. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
