Fedora release lifecyle

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


The current proposal 
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit/ReleaseProcess) of changing 
the Fedora lifecycle to support release N until N+2 is releases or 
approximately 13+ months is pretty good but I am wondering if we can go 
a bit further.  My suggestion would be look at a differentiated life 
cyle between Fedora server and desktop variants in the upcoming release 
or have a policy as follows

First six months - Feature additions, bug and security fixes six months 
Next six months - Only bug and security fixes
Next six months - Only critical security fixes*

For reference, here is what some other distributions do. Couldnt find 
proper information for many other distributions.

OpenSUSE
2 years
http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime

Mandriva
12 months for desktop. 18 months for base and 24 months for server.
http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/productlifetime

Ubuntu
18 months of security only updates for regular releases.
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/

[*] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-security-list/2006-October/msg00006.html

Rahul