Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:23:48AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:

 > Fedora Project isn't providing as good a service as it could, with just 
 > a teensy bit more effort.

I think you underestimate the effort involved with maintaining another branch
of packages. Bumping up to the newest version of a package isn't always
feasible, and it's a ton of work backporting fixes to older releases.
Tracking three streams of development is a nightmare (And this doesn't
even count RHEL streams that your average Red Hat developer works on
in parallel).

Handing off releases to legacy has been a great way of freeing up developer
time so that the stability of the current release increases and
the next release gets into a state ready for shipping.

Just the amount of time saved doing bugzilla triage on FC3 is going to pay
off huge now that it's reached EOL. I got the kernel bugcount pretty low at EOL,
and now I can go about doing the same thing for FC4, which has been suffering
at the expense of FC3 for a while.

		Dave