[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: System

[David J. Bianco]

Warren Togami wrote:
 > Most of the businesses involved with Fedora Legacy seem ONLY interested
 > in security patches to existing distributions and NOT add-ons, am I
 > right?

That's an emphatic YES from me.  The Legacy Project won't have the manpower
to go around adding in new features to old distros.  Security patches will
take enough work as it is, I think.

I would further suggest our policy include two additional clarifications:

   * If we must fix bugs which are not security-related, fix the high priority
     items that cause work stoppage, data loss, etc.  Don't fix unimportant
     bugs (simple cosmetic items, rarely used features, etc).  Let those be
     fixed in newer Fedora releases.
   * Don't add new features no matter how popular they are, unless they are
     necessary to resolve security or high-priority functionality bugs.

My idea is that once things are handed over to the Legacy Project, they
should be considered more or less "frozen".  It's not that I want to lock
out Legacy users from newer features, it's just that I believe these
releases should be looked upon as "stable" and not mucked with unnecessarily.
I doubt the Project will have a lot of extra QA resources, so we'd need
to concentrate them where they can do the most good for the least effort.

	David
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