FL update policy [Re: just one VERIFY to be fully published]

[Eric Rostetter]

> > Si in other words, Fedora Legacy will never maintain more than one
> > unsupported Fedora Core version? It seems to me that prolonging the
> > usefulness of a release by only six months isn't very long and, IMO, a
> > waste of time.
> 
> Well, it allows to jump through one version with loose time at
> each end (FC1 -> FC3), and if that's extended slightly, even two
> versions (FC1 -> FC4).  The latter seems pretty good already..

The problem with Fedora Core is that it is updated every 6 months or so,
and not at a standard set time.  This means you never know when a new
release will be out, or when support for your current release will be
up; but in either case, you would need to upgrade *right then* to be safe.

Now, in a university environment with a "production" server or machine
which runs an experiment, and so on, you can't just upgrade "right now"
as their are artificial constraints on downtime.  Generally you upgrade
between semesters, during spring break, or during the summer.  Since the
Fedora Core release cycle will rarely hit on one of these time periods,
this is a problem.

By extending its life even 6 months, you can be sure you will get support
until one of your upgrade windows comes along.  At least in my university
environment, I'll have an upgrade cycle about every 6 months.  So I can
now schedule my FC upgrades to match my upgrade schedules.

So, extending the life 6 months is a big deal to people at my university.
Maybe not useful to you, but it is to many.

-- 
Eric Rostetter