Proposed changes to Fedora Legacy Project

[Jeff Sheltren]

Hi Jesse, I do agree that some things about Fedora Legacy can be  
confusing to end users.  I've added some notes below.
On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:

> It has been brought to my attention that some of the terms we use are
> scaring users away.  This is not a good thing, so I propose the
> following changes:
>
> Where "Fedora Legacy" is mentioned, couple it with "The Community
> Maintenance Project".  IE "Fedora Legacy, the Community Maintenance
> Project".  Terms like 'Core', 'Extras', and 'Legacy' are pretty  
> generic,
> and require descriptive terms.  The terms I propose for use with  
> Legacy
> are userfriendly and accurate.
I don't really see the need for something like this, and personally I  
think "community maintenance project" makes it sound like we're going  
to be picking up garbage on the side of the highway.  I'm all for  
having a wiki page or something similar which describes the project  
and what we do, but I don't see a reason to change the name (or  
always require this type of suffix).

>
> Discontinue the use of 'End of Life'.  This term is very  
> misleading.  A
> core release that Fedora Legacy maintains is not End of Life, it is  
> just
> maintained by different folks.  Instead one can use the term
> 'maintenance mode'.  When a give Fedora Core release enters  
> "maintenance
> mode", Fedora Legacy, the Community Maintenance Project, will take  
> over
> maintenance of the release for Security issues.
I agree with this - End of Life can sound bad and scary. :)

>
> Together with these term changes, I propose changes to Core to  
> minimize
> the exposure of this project:
>
> Inclusion of Legacy repository and key information in the Core  
> release.
> This will allow update programs which make use of yum to not need any
> changes once a release enters maintenance mode.
I'm sure that this will be very helpful for people.

...
>
>
> Discontinue fedoralegacy.org website and integrate content into the
> Fedora Project wiki.  Some of this has happened already, the rest  
> needs
> to happen.  This will make it much easier for us to make changes to  
> our
> content, such as adding information about FC3.
Agreed.  With the wiki it is easy for us all to contribute and change  
things, also with Fedora Extras and other Fedora projects all based  
within the same wiki, it really has more of a community feel.

Everything else you mentioned (yum mirrors, repoview, and new build  
system) sounds good to me.

-Jeff