reviving Fedora Legacy

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:22:16PM -0700, Bob Arendt wrote:
> 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.

Why do we need to guarantee any more than active Fedora releases 
guarantee?  Forget backporting.  Just upgrade the package.  Take it 
from the current Fedora and rebuild it if necessary.

I've already said my piece on the timeline.  6-7 months to start out.  
If that works, we can talk about extending it.