Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[John Summerfied]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>>>>
>>>> Pretty simple. Continue getting updates from Fedora Legacy till 
>>>> Fedora Core 5 is released.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Take your fingers out of you ears; I alread said that's not what I 
>>> want to do.
> 
> 
> Ok, but isn't that a little bit of a harsh way to say it? I think that
> Rahul has used a very even tone so far. If I may ask, why do you have
> an aversion to FL? I have been using FL with my machine for FC2 since
> it was declared "stale" and have been very satisfied. It's not hard
> to set up for updates from there (I use "yum"), and the people are
> very nice and helpful.

It seemed to me that Rahul was being particularly obtuse, and does not 
recognise that the Fedora Project's service forces people into 
undesireable choices. It makes me wonder whether he properly understands 
"support."

It doesn't provide as good a service as, with just a little more effort, 
it could.
> 
>> Thats your personal choice. If you choose to refuse updates from FL, 
>> that a project issue.
>>

The issue is that the project doesn't provide quite the service some of 
its users think it ought.

I have better thinks to do than make pointless changes to my computer 
systems.

>>>
>>>
>>> Jo and I (and a lot of others) switched from RH back when RH 
>>> announced its changed arrangements, and the commencement of the 
>>> Fedora project because neither RH not FC provided what we wanted.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fedora Core 3 was supported by 1 year and 2 months. Thats far more 
>> than previous release Red Hat Linux not even counting the updates from 
>> FL.
> 
> 
> Well, this is another topic, I think. In some parts, Red Hat is
> considered notorious for churn. Trying to justify passing FC3 off
> by referring to previous track record is *ahem* somewhat weak, IMO.
> 
>>> We're asking just for a teensy extension to the support offered by 
>>> FP. Instead of 13 months for FC3, maybe 14 (FC5+1 say, instead of 
>>> FC5-1).
>>>
>> Present you detailed rationale to fedora-devel list then.
> 
> 
> Seems like a reasonable course of action.

OTOH I am a user (and a supporter), but not a developer, and the level 
of support is a user concern.



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