Stability and Release Cycles - An Idea

[Kevin Kofler]

Emmanuel Seyman wrote:

> * Les Mikesell [22/12/2008 17:48] :
>>
>> OK, inform the users.  But if they observed the guidelines they wouldn't
>> be attempting any updates anyway, would they?
> 
> ???

The distro is EOL and gets no updates, so why would they attempt to update
it?

> Whatever happens, the packages done after official EOL will almost
> certaingly be of lesser quality than the ones pre-EOL.

So what? It's EOL, users still using it deserve whatever they get.

And I think pushing out security updates, even if they're completely
untested, would still be better than no updates at all.

        Kevin Kofler