On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 06:22:16PM -0700, Bob Arendt wrote:
I really don't see how a Fedora Legacy can be maintained. If the
goal is increased stability and security patches, you need to
guarantee that you have folks supporting backpatches to the kernel,
glibc, firefox, evolution, openoffice, and several other large and
complex packages. Incorporating new security patches into old
baselines is *hard*. Plus Fedora would "fork" a new release every 6
months. How many legacy Fedora's would be retained? At some point
it seems the legacy volunteer force would saturate and legacy
Fedora's would have to start dropping off every 6 months.
Why do we need to guarantee any more than active Fedora releases
guarantee? Forget backporting. Just upgrade the package. Take it
from the current Fedora and rebuild it if necessary.
I've already said my piece on the timeline. 6-7 months to start out.
If that works, we can talk about extending it.