LWN article about us

Eric Rostetter rostetter at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Feb 4 16:37:07 UTC 2005


Quoting Pekka Savola <pekkas at netcore.fi>:

> > One issue raised here is whether we should be dropping support for 7.3
> > by now. Documentated end of support for 7.3 according to
> > <http://www.fedoralegacy.org/about/faq.php> is the middle of this year
> > (ie 1.5 years after Red Hat EOL). I would say that we should drop it no
> > later than the introduction of FC2 support in March, though, because
> > three distros is already fairly unmanagable. I'd be happy to drop it
> > earlier, though.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> IMHO, we should stick with RHL73.
> 
> When we get FC2 support, I suggest dropping FC1.  There will be WAY
> too many FC releases to take care of all of them, so I suggest just
> handling the latest.
> 
> Those users which have installed Fedora Core should have realized that
> it has much shorter support cycle, and they need to upgrade to newer
> releases of FC to stay current.

Has anyone even bothered to actually read the FAQ entry that is linked
into the above text?  It clearly defines what is dropped and when.

-- 
Eric Rostetter




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