plans for long term support releases?

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Naheem Zaffar wrote:
>> I would say keep 'proactive' support as it is, (Test 2 of Fn+2), but
>> at the same time do not remove the older distro from the Fedora
>> infrastructure for a little longer, allowing 'reactive' updates by
>> packagers who care.
>>
>> It has been mentioned by one individual it would be easier on a single
>> system to update packages than it was by havign two separate systems.
>> Maybe this would give the impetus needed?
>>
>> Only remove the distro after a minimum of around 18 months, but make
>> it clear that after around 13 months it is no longer proactively
>> maintained.
>>
>> Ofcourse this will still leave issues over who will maintain major
>> packages such as the kernel, which presumably require alot of work,
>> since the current maintainers would have moved on.
> 
> That is precisely the problem. Either everyone decides to commit to 
> providing update for a specific period of time or not. Allowing some 
> packagers to provide updates while others just dont care wont work 
> primarily because of setting the wrong expectations and due to potential 
> security issues with this arrangement.
> 
> Anyway, we are just beginning to merge core and extras. Discussing any 
> substantial changes right away seems a bit premature.
> 
> Rahul
> 

I agree - If we cannot support the entire distro with updates, it just 
makes no sense at all.

/Thomas