reviving Fedora Legacy

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Tue Oct 14 12:42:21 UTC 2008


Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > * Patrice Dumas [13/10/2008 13:23] :
> > >
> > > Why are you telling about half baked updates? Who will do that? Fedora
> > 
> > They're half-baked in the sense that there's less commitement
> > post-EOL than pre-EOL.

> But post-EOL there is currently no commitment and there won't be any
> promise on it. Some is better than not at all.

"Might someday get looked at and fixed, if somebody cares" is definitely
much worse than "No more fixes, do upgrade".

[Yes, the exact same reasoning behind rm(1)ed files are gone for good:
 Users moan the first few times they get burned, afterwards they learn and
 are careful.]
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