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[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com>:

> So, why invest time and $$ in RH and/or Fedora if the phase-out process
> is not treated as sincerely as the roll-out?

It is treated equally to the roll out.  You seem to think the roll outs
are more professional than they are.
 
> All I'm saying is this:  Put the truth on the website.  If FL isn't

It is. You seem to read into it what you want, rather than what it says.

> meant to be relied upon, nor if it isn't meant to be used in production
> systems, nor if it isn't suppose to be quality support for EOL'ed RH
> systems... just put the truth on the website so that visitors have
> correct data.

FL is not a single entity.  It supports RHL 7.3, RHL 9, and FC1 at the
moment.  RHL 7.3 is considered by most to be production quality.  The
FL support for it is considered by most to be production quality, though
not fast enough for many.  RHL 9 is a subject of debate whether it is
production quality or not.  Hence the FL updates for it hold a similar
status.  FC is officially not meant to be production quality.  So FL support
for FC should not be considered production quality, as we're starting with
a non-production ready base.

You can't paint FL updates with a single brush.  Each release has its
own quality issues.

> It seems to me that this following paragraph from the website should be
> removed:
> 
>   "The goal of The Fedora Legacy Project is to work with the Linux
>    community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages
>    for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions.
>    This will allow for a longer effective life for those releases."

It states exactly the goal of the project, and as such should not be
removed from the site.  Perhaps you meant to say something should be
added to it?

> After all, the above goes counter to a lot of the comments expressed
> here today.

No, it does not, unless you mean your own comments.

> Notably the ones about "test it yourself" and "expecting
> anything else is unrealisticaly wrong."

This is pure twisting of people's words to suit your argument.
 
> -Jim P.

-- 
Eric Rostetter