reviving Fedora Legacy

[Bob Arendt]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> I'm not talking about QA.. I'm talking about verifying that the
> volunteer maintainers are actually still in place a year+ later.  How
> do make users aware that packages are unmaintained for 1+ years? Do
> you plan to expire unmaintained packages so new users don't have
> access to them?You have to have some process to verify that the
> maintainers are there because you are explicitly stating that the life
> of branch depends on an accurate count of the active maintainers. if
> you don't build a process to try to verify maintainer involvement..the
> branches could live forever because there is no pre-defined EOL.
>
>   
I really don't see how a Fedora Legacy can be maintained.  If the goal 
is increased
stability and security patches, you need to guarantee that you have 
folks supporting
backpatches to the kernel, glibc, firefox, evolution,  openoffice, and 
several other large
and complex packages.  Incorporating new security patches into old 
baselines is *hard*.
Plus Fedora would "fork" a new release every 6 months.  How many legacy
Fedora's would be retained?  At some point it seems the legacy volunteer 
force
would saturate and legacy Fedora's would have to start dropping off 
every 6 months.