Please help the EPEL effort a bit even if you don't participate in EPEL

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Mon May 14 11:47:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:12 +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> There is just one thing I wanted to know, 'cause the FAQ doesn't say, and 
> it really should:
> 
> * What is the expected length of the support-cycle for an EPEL release?
>    How long should you expect to be security-fixing and handling bugs for
>    the package until the EPEL release is considered obsolete?

7 years.

> I expect the answer to be == the support cycle length of RHEL which I 
> don't know either, so please elaborate.

Yes.  7 years.

josh




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