[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Les Mikesell]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> 
>> But the first question should be why a separate community is necessary.  
>> Why is it not possible for one of fedora's goals to be to provide a  
>> clean transition to RHEL or Centos at the end of certain development  
>> cycles, 
> 
> That point would have been FC6 alpha (or something like that) for RHEL 5. 
> So you would have an alpha release from which you could do the transition. 
> 
> Everything (or mostly everything) else in FC6 after that point is newer than
> the stuff you'd find in RHEL. How do you want to switch from there to RHEL? 

"How" is the part that should be planned from the start instead of 
leaving all of your users in this position.

>> at which point EPEL/Rpmfusion, etc. would be unnecessary as  
>> separate entities since that fedora cycle's repository would be directly  
>> usable as-is and would simply need to be maintained instead of the  
>> various 3rd party versions that have been necessary to fill this void?
> 
> No, it wouldn't as stuff probably would require newer versions of base 
> packages than are available in RHEL. 

Again, that seems like bad planning.  Wasn't that predictable?  But, 
there are people who claim to have don't successful upgrades from FC6 to 
RHEL/Centos.

> I do not think that what you suggest is even remotely possible given the
> development cycles of Fedora and the ones of Red Hat Enterprise.
> 
> And I don't think it is necessary.

Perhaps having a user base isn't necessary. I doubt if RH would have 
ever attracted one in the beginning if they had not planned to support 
their users from development through production.

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   Les Mikesell
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