On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 03:53 -0400, Ding Yi Chen wrote: > > > ----- 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, That's the difference !!!! You volunteered to support your packages in EPEL because RHEL is part of your job. As a free and independent Fedora contributor, neither RHEL nor EPEL are of any interest to me. However I've repeatedly found myself in situations of being stuck with EOL'ed Fedora => I'd offer to continue "keepalive maintenance" of my packages for discontinued Fedora, if the related efforts can be kept minimal. > As for Fedora Legacy, just lack of critical mass. Well, it certainly makes a difference if an enterprise's employees work on several distros in parallel because these are part of their job (rsp. the basis of their job) or whether somebody contributes packages on a volunteered basis :) Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
