On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 09:56 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 14:55 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:35 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > Further: IMO, fedora legacy did not fail. It was discontinued by > > > > management, because it collided the certain business interests. > > > 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. > > s/fairly small/extremely large/ How? I am talking about entirely handing over a (discontinued) Fedora version to the community. Apart from individuals with an @RH address which of cause could continue to participate, RH's role would be to provide the infrastructure. > 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. > > And having /three/ branches of Fedora instead of /two/ 6 instead of 5 (EL-4, EL-5, FC-7, FC-8, rawhide + soon EL-6), on an entirely volunteered basis. > No, "then just get the newest package then and integrate it with the rest" > doesn't cut it. If I want LTS it is exactly because I don't want ABI/API or > configuration changes /at all/. Then RHEL would be the appropriate choice for you. For a Fedora LTS I would like to see a "consistent ABI/API", but not stagnating/constant ones. > > However, I recall FESCO (or had it been FAB?) having decided on FC's > > short life-time > > Very good idea, helps keeping the distribution focused on bleeding edge and > minimizes spreadout of the (very limited!) developers. Well, IMO, it has helped degrading a once usable distro into what suspiciously resembles "rawhide snapshots". Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
