Extending FC5 lifecycle?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Feb 19 13:56:52 UTC 2007


On 19.02.2007 14:44, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Matt Domsch wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:49:47PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Can we decide if we wanted to extend the lifecycle of FC5 till F7 is 
>>> released or not? I know there was some discussions before on that but 
>>> since F7 is going to have 4 test releases and second test release is 
>>> expected shortly, we need to determine this now.
>> We decided it would be N+2 plus one month, so FC5 is maintained until
>> one month after F7 is released (whenever that is).  We bantered around
>> "13 months", but that's really just shorthand for "N+2 plus 1 month".
> Cool. We should send out a broader announcement then.

+1 -- it IMHO shows nicely one of the IMHO typical Fedora problems: 
Things get decided, but not properly announced to broader public. I have 
to admit that this was also a problem of the old FESCo when I was chair, 
too...

CU
thl




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