On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 00:01 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote:
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:12:05PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> Patrice Dumas <pertusus <at> free.fr> writes:
>>
>>> In my response to that mail, failing to have a metric I retired my
>>> proposal, and nobody supported my views (and overall nobody supported my
>>> views).
>>>
>> In terms of those metrics, I'm still in favor of a mostly anarchical
approach:
>>
>
> I completly agree. This is simple and leave everything to the packagers
> initiative, I think that it is also what Ralf had in mind. But some people
> insisted on communicating to the public what was maintained, hence my
> proposal. But what you propose is better.
>
> --
> Pat
>
>
Up to here you definitely had my sympathy. But this anarchical approach
makes me wonder who your target audience is.
All "users", esp. those who
currently stay with discontinued and
unmaintained Fedoras, because
- they are not aware about these Fedora's being dead.
- they can't cope with the "frequent upgrades" or can't afford
upgrading
at the point in time a Fedora release is going EOL. discontinued.
- they can't upgrade for technical reasons.
Another aspect would be "keep users with Fedora" and to not force them
to resort to other distros.
Ralf