Fedora Core 5 Retirement
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Tue Jul 3 04:32:09 UTC 2007
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:41:47PM -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> As of Monday, July 2nd 2007, Fedora Core 5 has gone into retirement. No
> further updates will be issued for FC5 or FE5 as we refocus our
> developer attention to development of F8 and maintenance of our most
> recent stable Fedora 7.
>
> The Fedora Project now runs on a N+2 + 1 month support schedule. This
> means the supported lifetime of FC5 was scheduled to end one month after
> the release of F7. FC5 was supported from March 20th 2006 through July
> 2nd 2007, or a good ~15.5 months.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/Schedule
> By the current Fedora 8 development schedule, the supported lifetime of
> FC6 is to continue to a minimum of early December 2007.
In the past, what happens to the still-open bugs against an EOL'd
release has been decided by the individual package owner.
I've seen..
* Move all bugs to currently open release
* Move all bugs to rawhide
* Close bugs WONTFIX
* "please upgrade" msg, NEEDINFO, wait a while, ->WONTFIX
* Nothing, bugs left open, users left unaware that no fix is coming.
all used as potential strategies for dealing with this, but it
would be good to have a unified message. It would also probably
be much faster for bugzilla admins to run some SQL query than
each developer doing this by hand (last time I did it for the
kernel, it took several hours for the 'change multiple bugs'
thing to finish, with firefox actually timing out a few times).
Dave
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