On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:35:18AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > This has impacts on everyone though, not just the people that > want to keep an old branch active. You have to worry about: > > 1) Upgrade paths No more than in fedora releases. > 2) buildsystem inheritence That seems like an interesting issue... Could you be a bit more specific? > 3) Storage (CVS, mirrors, koji, etc) CVS is not really an issue, we leave old branches already currently. Others may be problematic. How many updates do we keep in the download server? Is it only one version or more? If there is only one version, then there is no problem, in my opinion. For koji, I know that some builds are already deleted, maybe for LTS we could keep builds around for some months and delete all except the last one? > 4) Bug reports (because they certainly will get reported to the > overall package maintainers, not just the "LTS" maintainers) I see 2 phases. In the first phase we consider that EOL product aren't maintained anymore, that is we respond to those bug reports in the same way than we respond to bug reports about EOL products today. If there is enough interest in the project, then we mandate LTS maintainers to be in watchbugzilla and we find a way to advertise which packages are still maintained. The most simple would be mass orphaning packages such that a maintainer has to put himself in the fedora db for a package for that package to be considered to be still maintained. > 5a) Depletion of test and development resources to current releases I don't think we should mandate how fedora contributors allocate their time. > or > 5b) Lack of participation Time will tell. > I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just needs a lot of thought. > There is a reason the Fedora Legacy project died. Once again it is very different now. Legacy had different infrastructure, different rules, and overall was more complicated. And there has been improvements in the fedora infrastructure since then. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
