On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 16:31 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
I mostly agree, however it seems to me that a true Fedora LTS is
missing, that would allow those who want things that are new, including
for testing but cannot afford changing everything each year (servers for
example or user desktops). It seems to me that fedora ends up being used
almost exclusively as single user desktop, so that testing of other
functionalities is likely to be less widespread. Fortunately, those
functionnalities certainly need less integration and so less testing in
fedora before they go to RHEL/CENTOS + EPEL, but still it would
certainly have some relevance, in my opinion.
Given the amount of churn we allow maintainers to introduce into our
"stable" releases, I highly doubt Fedora would be suitable for any
situation where a "LTS" was desired. There is just too much major
version upgrading, behavioral changes, massive amounts of updates,
rapidly invalid documentation, and high chance of regression in the
"stable" updates. We should address *that* problem before ever thinking
about extending the life.
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