On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 10:34:08AM -0200, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote: > Let's go! > - - Fedora is released > - - 1 or 2 months packing and releasing new and necessaries packages > versions ( now we have 11 months). > - - 1 or 2 months planning, studying the impacts, creating the migration > plan and applying it(now we have 9 months) > - - ohhhh in 9 months we have to do this again > - - so, we will use CENTOS or DEBIAN. > > That is the problem! Year by year migrating all fedora systems to the > new version! Hi Rodrigo, I understand the frustration you feel in this tension between the benefits of a fast-moving rate of innovation and the need many organizations have to not be constantly upgrading all of their machines. You are not alone in feeling torn between two choices, neither of which seem optimal for you. I am sure there are a lot of other organizations that are in the same position. I also note with admiration that you are clearly a person with a lot of energy and a sincere passion for the Fedora Project. Therefore I have a few questions for you. How large an organization is SERPRO? What is its annual budget, roughly? And how many other large organizations are you aware of that have similar concerns? The reason I ask is that it seems to me that if an organization with thousands of employees really depends on Fedora for its daily operations, and if that organization would greatly benefit from an increased support cycle for Fedora, then it might easily be worth it for that organization to hire a small handful of developers specifically tasked with continuing the maintenance of the distro for a period of time after the Fedora Project has ceased to support it. And if this might be a worthwhile investment for SERPRO, perhaps it would also be worthwhile for a few other large organizations in similar situations. Given a handful of organizations, each sponsoring a handful of developers, it seems to me you could easily accomplish what you desire, and effectively revive something like the Fedora Legacy project. Skip every odd (or even) numbered release, and concentrate on providing only the most critical updates for your supported release for one additional year, giving you a total supported lifespan of ~2 years, and you'd never be supporting more than two releases at once. Of course, it would take a person with a lot of energy and a sincere passion for Fedora to organize such an effort, and to convince a few organizations like SERPRO that this would be a cost effective way to solve their problem. Perhaps you know such a person? :) cheers, - Paul -- Paul Stauffer <paulds@xxxxxx> Manager of Research Computing Computer Science Department Boston University -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
