On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:24 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote: > David Mansfield wrote: > > I'm fairly new to this list so if this is flame-bait, then I apologize. > > I was wondering whether there is any possibility of having the > > occasional 'long term support' (LTS) release of Fedora (say one every > > two years or something) so that users can settle down with the distro > > and actually become productive with it. > > > > Say the LTS cycle is one release every two years (every fourth Fedora > > release), and that the 'long term' for support only lasts for two years > > (which is pretty short to use the term long for, I realize), then there > > would only be one LTS release, and also the most current release to > > worry about at any given time. > > > > If there is simply not enough teampower to do this, then that's > > understood. > > > > Thanks, > > David > > That is essentially what was tried with the fedora legacy project (supporting > eol fedora releases for a longer term) but there was not enough interest and > support to keep it going. It did support RH9 and FC releases up to FC5 I think? Almost the same. A few differences: - that project was 'glued on' to an existing process instead of a part of it - they came into the game with a number of releases to support already - they wanted to support every release I think Fedora LTS would be: - planned and built into the Fedora cycle and finally implemented - only releases planned in advance to be LTS releases would be LTS - there would only be one (or two) outstanding LTS releases at a time David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
