Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > Talking as end user (who will always like to be on the latest release > -so not only is this), would it not be possible to have some natural > limit to a releases life? 13-ish months, right now. Something like 4 to 7 months more than the hackers would like to provide on their own. Yes, I'm running rawhide, and see this (and other) mailing lists and discussions re Fedora. Once version N is out, a few developers stay to get it working right, the rest flocks to the exciting world of shiny new packages, baby-munching and brand new bugs to fix that is rawhide. Same thing has always happened with the kernel, and Gnome. It is for this same reason that the kernel moved away from the "stable/development series" split. > Something like: > > Standard support - what we get now. Around 13 months depending on releases. > + Reactive support - an additional time period where the community is > willing It isn't. Experimental data point. Not just for Fedora, look around at other community-driven open source projects. The "old/stable/legacy" branch usually has trouble getting manpower. And there we are normally talking a couple of years at the most, not the lifetime of e.g. RHEL or Ubuntu LTS. > to provide updates to key packages using the same structure > for the standard updates. Your key package is useless baggage for me. Who decides? Some set of key packages (however that is decided) just doesn't find sponsors willing to keep them up to date. What then? Just letting them rot is bad for the image of the distribution... The package I might be interested in keeping alive a few years longer might interest almost nobody else (yes, has happened to me; kept upgrading it locally). > For this there MUST be a community member > willing to provide updates for the key packages - even if it @RH for > supported releases. There aren't any volunteers, as this thread has amply shown. [...] > A good proposal or total crack? Please tell /in detail/ what the advantage would be against going with CentOS + EPEL. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
