Maintenance policy for older releases

[Jesse Keating]

On Thursday 09 November 2006 09:41, Michel Salim wrote:
> Since FC-5 is still being supported in Core, what is the official line
> of what Extras need to support? I can understand a maintainer being
> uncomfortable releasing something he has not tested himself, but for
> essentially bugfix releases it's probably better than nothing (and
> that's what bug reports are for anyway).
>
> On the other extreme, is it OK to keep pushing updates for deprecated
> releases, if the packages do not have other packages depending on
> them? (So it won't trigger the need to rebuild other,
> potentially-unmaintained, packages)

Yes, until a release reaches 'maintenance' mode in which only severe bugfixes 
or security fixes should be issued.

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Policy/EOL

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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