Lurker Suggestion: Retro-name RHL to Fedora Core 0.x

[David Kewley]

Jesse Keating wrote on Friday 06 August 2004 14:30:
> On Friday 06 August 2004 14:23, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Sure, when RH stops pushing updates for it.  Tentitive date is
> > > the release of FC3 Test 3.
> >
> > Test 2, actually. See
> >
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/
>
> Whoops.  I stand (sit) corrected.

The full announcement is:

"The Fedora Steering Committee proposes to transfer Fedora Core 1 to the 
Fedora Legacy Project at the point Fedora Core 3 Test 2 is released. 
This is currently scheduled for September 13, 2004.

This represents a one month extension from the original timetable but an 
extension we hope will enable the Fedora Legacy Project to receive 
considerably better quality access to the codebase.

For more information on the Fedora Legacy Project, or if you wish to 
join the team please see http://fedoralegacy.org/."

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Now, I'm curious about a few things in this announcement.  <time passes 
as I browse fedora.redhat.com...>  Well now actually just one thing, 
because I just looked up details on the Fedora Steering Committee (four 
Red Hat employees) and the current errata policy (errata produced until 
2-3 months after the subsequent release).

Here's my question.  What is meant by "an extension we hope will enable 
the Fedora Legacy Project to receive considerably better quality access 
to the codebase"?

Or to split it into two parts: What is "considerably better quality 
access to the codebase"?  And since the schedule extension is 
reportedly helping to romote this access, what is going to happen 
publicly or behind the scenes in the coming month before FL takes over 
errata production for FC1?

I more or less represent a group of university sysadmins who are rolling 
out FC1 and are disturbed that non-legacy errata support is about to 
end (of course we have no one to blame, just concern about what we're 
going to do next).  We'd like to feel we can count on timely errata 
from FL, but so far we're unconvinced that'll happen.  Do y'all 
anticipate some change that will promote more-timely FL errata?

I know one reply I'm going to get on this list: If you're so concerned, 
why don't you contribute time to Fedora Legacy so things happen 
faster?! :)  Indeed, I'm evaluating right now how I want to get 
involved.

David