Once upon a time Saturday 18 February 2006 12:30 pm, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Hi all! > > > We still have no defined EOL Policy for Fedora Extras -- there were some > ideas and concepts floating around, but no real policy came out of it so > far. I'd really like to get this solved somehow soon. That's why I'm > writing this mail. I think that extras should follow Core, well i really think there should be no core and extras there should be Fedora, which is fully supported by the community. Kind of like what Warren Suggested as his dream. > - keep FE3 fully alive for RHEL4/CentOS and/or Aurora; some people that > suggested this even want to take over the complete maintainer-ship for > all packages in FE3 > ( > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-February/msg00652.h >tml ) > > Well, I can understand this idea. But there are some things that I don't > like: > > -- Maintaining FE3 is a job that needs more then one packager. Two or > three is a minimum IMHO and AFAICS. > I know i cant do it by myself. But i am willing to stand up and say hey I want this to work. What i would suggest is that once core move to legacy extras follows suit. What will this mean. no big updates Just security fixes and major bug fixes, though there shouldnt be many of the latter. I maintain 3 FC3 servers and have no plans to update the os any time soon. how would i see it working? by using the existing infrastructure. package maintainers who want to still maintain there packages should be allowed to. What is hardest is know who is and who is not going to maintain there packages. we have a couple of ways that we can know this. but it all boils down to we need a database that has the information in it. how do we get it? 1) when submitting packages the maintainer states i will support development and current or i will support only current or development and 2 releases or I will support indefinetly. 2) When a package maintainer decides he no longer wishes to maintain a package for a release he/she fills out a form updating the info so that someone wanting to jump in can. One thing i realise now is that some people may not want to or have the resources to support the development branch. Its a huge moving target. not only do you get frequent changes in extras you get it in core also. and some people just cant or dont want to keep up. we kinda assume that they will. So im going to step up and say i want in, but it will take more than me. The more people that continue to maintain there packages the better. If people are not going to maintain them then step up and say so. Lets make this work for all. I see that a clear time to say ok thats all she wrote in this book in when Legacy stops supporting core. based on stated legacy policy of 1-2-3 out fc3 would live until legacy takes over from fc7 if i read it correctly. the one thing that bothers me about legacy is that it supports only x86 no x86_64 and no ppc I personally use all those arches in addition to sparc. So will anybody else help? -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE <dennis AT ausil DOT us> http://www.ausil.us Proud Australian
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