1-2-3 out, time for FC2?

[Tres Seaver]

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Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 22:07, NARS wrote:
> 
>>If fedoralegacy supported FC1 for so long why to take fc2 out now? Try to
>>do a search on dedicated servers providers, you will find most of them
>>still provide FC2, and for eg. Plesk supports FC3 only on latest versions
>>(officially)... another example, look at this poll at ART's site:
>>http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Polls&file
>>=index&req=results&pollID=6&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
>>
>>I think FC2 is still used by many people, I would suggest you consider
>>supporting FC2 for some more time if possible.
> 
> 
> Honestly, I feel that supporting FC1 for so long was a mistake.  It set a 
> precedence that I really don't want to continue.  Legacy picked a timeline 
> that fit well with what Fedora produces, and what RHEL (and rebuilds) offer.  
> Going further than that is really beyond the scope of the Fedora Project as a 
> whole.  Falling back into our 1-2-3 and out set schedule will be the best 
> thing, and to get to that point we need to drop FC1 and FC2, to make room for 
> FC3.  We need to concentrate on doing better for the releases we do support, 
> and adding to the workload is not the way to do this.  Fedora is great, and 
> the lifespan we can give it is a good, but if you need more, you should 
> probably be looking at RHEL or one of its rebuilds.

I don't know that you had any alternative:  AFAICT, the active
maintainers *all* care about older releases (RH73., RH9, FC1);  I
haven't seen a package QA'ed for FC2 before those since it rolled to Legacy.

Dropping the releases which get actual love may feel cleaner, but  I
don't think you are going to get the folks who have been maintaining
those older releases to switch to a newer FC:  they will, as you point
out, more likely switch away from Fedora altogether.  Perhaps there are
a group of volunteers who care about more recent FC releases, and who
can take up the load.

Best,


Tres.
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