Extending FC5 lifecycle?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Axel Thimm wrote:

>> Extending the life cycle of Fedora releases
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> As proposed earlier in the Fedora Summit [1], Fedora Project has decided 
>> to extend the life cycle of Fedora releases. Previously every release of 
>> Fedora reaches end of life after FCn+2 test 2 is released which is 
>> approximately 9 months. We have now extended this such that every 
>> release of Fedora is maintained for a month after FCn+2 is released.
> 
> Maybe add "resulting to a net release life of approximately 13
> months"? We'd like to stress the improvement of 4 additional months,
> many users will not really know the internals of Fedora release
> cycles.

Ok.


> 
>> This means end users of Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6 will now get 
>> updates till after a month after the release of Fedora 7 and 8 
>> respectively. This was planned to allow end users the ability to 
>> optionally skip every other release and directly upgrade from N to N+1 
>> release of Fedora.
> 
> You mean "from N to N+2".

Duh, yes.  Paul W. Frields did it better now. Jesse Keating, do you want 
to mention Fedora Legacy in this?

Rahul