8.0 packages to QA

[Johnny Strom]

Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>:
> 
>> Easy solution: remove 7.2 and 8.0 from the (claimed) supported list.
>> :-)
> 
> 
> That is essentially what Red Hat did that caused the need for FedoraLegacy
> in the first place.  FedoraLegacy was supposed to fix the sudden drop of
> support for RHL, not do the same thing to its users.
> 
>> We could still throw in a fixed package or two to 7.2/8.0 if be bother
>> to (I wouldn't suggest that though), but at least the message would be
>> clear... :)
> 
> 
> Yes, that FL doesn't care any more about its community than RH did.
> Is that the message we want to give?
> 

Well to me it seems like there are quite a lot of ppl. that have shown 
intrest in doing backporting and QA on fedora but it seems that there 
are quite few that actually is doing anyting.
I try to do my best and offer my freetime to help out with QA and things 
like that, it is not so hard to look in bugzila download packages and QA 
them and give feedback into bugzilla.

So it is a lack of manpower that would care about rh 7.2 and
rh 8.0 that is what why there is a problem.


So to fix this I porpose that we setup a "what needs to be done list" 
that is sent out every second week or so, any thoughts on that?



> The reason for FL was so that peopl

e could plan for upgrades with a
> fixed support time for their releases.  If we just drop them, then
> we've deceived these people (saying we'd support them for at least 1.5
> years, and then not doing it).
> 
> I'm not saying we can't do this, as if there is no community support,
> then it should be done.  But we need to be upfront about it, and the
> message we should give out is one of fact (lack of community support)
> and not just one of convenience (now you see it, now you don't).
> 
> And no, I didn't miss the smilly faces in the post.  But I'm sure others
> will miss them, or misinterpret them, so I'm answering as if they are
> not there.
> 
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> Eric Rostetter
> 
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