Fedora lifetime and stability

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Nov 12, 2007 5:22 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On Nov 11, 2007 7:48 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> >> It would be nice if an FC release could be supported for security issues
> >> only for some reasonable length of time, maybe two years from iitial
> >> release?
> >
> > By whom?
> >
> By people concerned to have this available. Fedora Legacy worked, but I
> think it went back too far (I got updates for RH8 at one time) which
> makes it too much work.

Not to be rude, but are you going to do it? It seems that those who
were originally interested in such lost interest

> Does that sound reasonable for resources? The FL stuff would have been
> great, I would have suggested this when it became obvious that the
> project was no longer practical, and I could certainly keep a system on
> an old release if that would be useful as a build playform.


Don't get me wrong, longer lifetmes are a reasonable goal. But you
can't just wave your hand and say "Fedora" should do it.


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