State of 7.2/8.0 in Fedora Legacy

[glm]

Jesse Keating wrote:

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>With the recent addition of Red Hat Linux 9, and the nearing end of life 
>of Fedora Core 1, it's becoming apparent that the Fedora Legacy project 
>lacks the man power to properly support all these releases.
>
>After trolling through bugzilla last night, it was quickly apparent that 
>many of the packages in limbo were waiting on RHL 7.2/8.0 builds/QA.  
>I've made noise before about dropping 7.2/8.0 and there has always been 
>people making noise that they didn't want to see it dropped.  However I 
>have not seen much (if any) community support for these releases.  For 
>these reasons I am more inclined than ever to drop these releases.
>
>For the most part, RHL 7.3 packages (and RHEL2.1 packages) can be 
>rebuilt to run on 7.2, and RHL9 (RHEL3) packages can be rebuilt to run 
>on 8.0.  However without proper testing and engineering by the Fedora 
>Legacy community it would be irresponsible for us to just do these 
>simple steps.
>
>As we move forward, streamlining updates is absolutely necessary.  In 
>order to streamline, the bottlenecks need to be addressed, and today 
>these road blocks (aside from me and my personal time management 
>issues) are RHL 7.2 and RHL 8.0.
>
>So again, I broach the subject of removing these releases from official 
>Fedora Legacy supported releases.  We will still be supporting the 
>overwhelming majority of users and it is the best use of the limited 
>resources of the Fedora Legacy project.
>
>Please provide your (relevant) feedback.  Thanks.
>
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Hi Jesse,
I agree with the above proposal.
Thank you,
glm.