Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:38:37PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:31:44AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > you know, there is a Fedora based release that promises long term > > > > stability and quality... > > > > > I know, but in that case there are customers, it is very different, > > > there are contracts. > > > > People associate a name (Fedora, or RHEL, or IBM) with a certain > > expectation. > The RHEL and IBM names are very different from the Fedora one. No. All come with (hard-earned) reputations. Different ones, sure. But nevertheless valuable. > > If I came along and offered you a support contract for RHEL at > > half the price, and promising the same level of support, would you take it? > Here you are meaning that Fedora can offer support for free. It does! You trust them to fix bugs, and keep your system reasonably secure, don't you? > It isn't > the same issue. Of course reputation is important. And Fedora reputation > may be good. And price doesn't make the reputation, but it creates > obligations a reputation doesn't create. Keeping the reputation creates the obligation, price is besides the point. [...] > > What you would be squandering here is Fedora's good name. All for "OK, > > let's LTS this one. But someone critical might get bored in a month or two > > and drop it with little warning, so take care"? > Don't call it fedora then. Once again the name is not the issue. Great. All is missing now is the hordes of people interested in extending the life of e.g. Fedora 7 for 4 years more. Please, stand orderly in line, everybody will have their turn at helping out. > > Again, the offer was made repeatedly to (help) set up a SIG, contact > > interested parties in founding an LTS, ... and /nobody/ has stepped > > forward. Telling, ist't it? > It doesn't tell anything since it was also said repeatedly that people > wanting to do it will have to do it against the will of the fedora > rulers (the boards, infrastructure team...). What I've seen here is exactly the opposite... -- 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
