----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf Corsepius" <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 2008年10月13日 星期一 下午04时16分49秒 GMT +10:00 Brisbane Subject: Re: reviving Fedora Legacy On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:22 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote: > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > I'm not talking about QA.. I'm talking about verifying that the > > volunteer maintainers are actually still in place a year+ later. How > > do make users aware that packages are unmaintained for 1+ years? Do > > you plan to expire unmaintained packages so new users don't have > > access to them?You have to have some process to verify that the > > maintainers are there because you are explicitly stating that the life > > of branch depends on an accurate count of the active maintainers. if > > you don't build a process to try to verify maintainer involvement..the > > branches could live forever because there is no pre-defined EOL. > > > > > > I really don't see how a Fedora Legacy can be maintained. > Ask yourselves: How can EPEL be maintained? I can answer this. :-) I have Fedora 9 on my left hand and RHEL 5 on my right hand,literately, As a Red Hat employee, I urge myself to support both the latest released versions on Fedora and RHEL. I suspect there are many people have similar situation, thus EPEL is required. As for Fedora Legacy, just lack of critical mass. Ding-Yi Chen Software Engineer Internationalization Group Red Hat, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
