long term support release

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:35:31 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> Also: There had repeatedly expressed interest of volunteers to
> contribute to something like a Fedora LTS. 

Maybe for packages in ex-Extras where you can upgrade versions as much as
you like. But there are not enough volunteers to maintain core packages
and do security-fixes.
 
> Further: IMO, fedora legacy did not fail. It was discontinued by
> management, because it collided the certain business interests.

They failed because they couldn't keep up with the project's promises.
Even copying patches from RHEL errata packages was too much work for the
few volunteers.