Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[John Summerfied]

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.





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John

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