reviving Fedora Legacy

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 13 18:54:46 UTC 2008


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:47:13PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>
>>> Of course. At least for me, I think that this idea is not worth pursuing
>>> if the cost in term of infras manpower or even hardware and the like is
>>> not almost nill (except for volunteers really interested in that).
>> Patrice,
>>
>> It appears that 2.6.27 will be maintained for a longer period of time.  
>> If this project gets started, you might want to keep track of this.
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/742570/focus=743377
> 
> Except that over the life of F10, it will likely migrate to 2.6.28 and
> therefore if/when a Fedora LTS gets created at the point that F10 is EOL,
> the fact that 2.6.27 will be long-term maintained will be sort of irrelevant.

I can't predict the future. 2.6.27 hasn't been pushed to Fedora 9. Maybe 
Patrice wants to start off with Fedora 8 or Fedora 9 instead of Fedora 
10. Maybe 2.6.28 won't hit Fedora 10. It is a potentially useful data 
point to consider. That's all.

Rahul




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