Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Jan 18 00:48:24 UTC 2006
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:23:48AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
>
> > Fedora Project isn't providing as good a service as it could, with just
> > a teensy bit more effort.
>
> I think you underestimate the effort involved with maintaining another branch
> of packages. Bumping up to the newest version of a package isn't always
> feasible, and it's a ton of work backporting fixes to older releases.
> Tracking three streams of development is a nightmare (And this doesn't
> even count RHEL streams that your average Red Hat developer works on
> in parallel).
>
> Handing off releases to legacy has been a great way of freeing up developer
> time so that the stability of the current release increases and
> the next release gets into a state ready for shipping.
>
> Just the amount of time saved doing bugzilla triage on FC3 is going to pay
> off huge now that it's reached EOL. I got the kernel bugcount pretty low at EOL,
> and now I can go about doing the same thing for FC4, which has been suffering
> at the expense of FC3 for a while.
>
> Dave
>
Dave,
we're only talking about a short period of support. If Rahul is right
(and I don't believe he is), there won't be any fixes.
If he's wrong, I don't imagine that there will be many fixes, so we're
talking about only a little bit more support - a short period of time,
maybe a few important fixes.
And those fixes are being generated anyway: all that's needed is better
timing and better coordination. I really don't see much change to the
workload at all, and I can imagine it might even be better: do the
handover when the panic of pushing the new release out the door is over
and things have calmed down a bit, instead of when the excitement's
building and everyone's running round trying to get last-minute changes
in, trying to justify rebuilding everything so we can get the latest
prerelease gcc or glibc or whatever in.
--
Cheers
John
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