On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:58:16AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Anyway, meanwhile, things in Fedora-land have changed. > > What prevents Fedora from launching a "Fedora LTS" as part of Fedora, > using the Fedora infrastructure, e.g. by simply imply declaring "Fedora > 7" life time's extended for, say 2 years, when FC9 comes out? > > The price would be fairly small. In particular, the infrastructure > already is in place. All what would have to be implemented would be some > regulations/conventions concerning "ABI/APIs" and ACLs. I think that you are partly right, that is the infrastructure is there. And I also think that there is just no reason not to let interested people maintain fedora for a longer time. But I also think that currently such an effort wouldn't be that succesful because there are still a lot of packages that haven't comaintainers interested in the long term fedora, especially for former core packages. But things are changing and maybe with more mixed involvment in former core packages this would certainly become more likely to be successful. > However, I recall FESCO (or had it been FAB?) having decided on FC's > short life-time and to support EPEL. Both decisions have been severe > mistakes, IMO. Supporting EPEL is a good idea, but not letting those who want to take care of long term fedora is in my opinion a mistake. In most cases epel spec files couuld be used for fedora long term, in my opinion there would certainly be synergies between the 2 projects. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
