Fedora release lifecyle

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Dec 13 19:58:22 UTC 2006


Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora at leemhuis.info) said: 
> My vote:
> 
> For all releases with even number:
> First six months - Feature additions, bug and security fixes
> next six months - Only bug and security fixes
> next twelve months -  Only critical security fixes
> EOL
> 
> For all releases with uneven number:
> First six months - Feature additions, bug and security fixes
> next seven months - Only bug and security fixes
> EOL
> 
> Such a theme would be helpful for users from hosting companies that run
> FC on their machines.

Gack. Is this really what we're trying to accomplish? This all
goes back to what is Fedora. It is not all things to all people - I
truly feel if you want multiple years of maintenance, you should be
looking at things like RHEL (or other prominent enterprise linux
distributions.)

Bill




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