reviving Fedora Legacy

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 03:53 -0400, Ding Yi Chen wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralf Corsepius" <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: 2008年10月13日 星期一 下午04时16分49秒 GMT +10:00 Brisbane
> Subject: Re: reviving Fedora Legacy
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> On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:22 -0700, Bob Arendt wrote:
> > Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > I'm not talking about QA.. I'm talking about verifying that the
> > > volunteer maintainers are actually still in place a year+ later.  How
> > > do make users aware that packages are unmaintained for 1+ years? Do
> > > you plan to expire unmaintained packages so new users don't have
> > > access to them?You have to have some process to verify that the
> > > maintainers are there because you are explicitly stating that the life
> > > of branch depends on an accurate count of the active maintainers. if
> > > you don't build a process to try to verify maintainer involvement..the
> > > branches could live forever because there is no pre-defined EOL.
> > >
> > >   
> > > I really don't see how a Fedora Legacy can be maintained.
> > Ask yourselves: How can EPEL be maintained?
> 
> I can answer this. :-)
> 
> I have Fedora 9 on my left hand and RHEL 5 on my right hand,literately, 
> As a Red Hat employee, 
That's the difference !!!!

You volunteered to support your packages in EPEL because RHEL is part of
your job. As a free and independent Fedora contributor, neither RHEL nor
EPEL are of any interest to me. 

However I've repeatedly found myself in situations of being stuck with
EOL'ed Fedora => I'd offer to continue "keepalive maintenance" of my
packages for discontinued Fedora, if the related efforts can be kept
minimal.

> As for Fedora Legacy, just lack of critical mass.
Well, it certainly makes a difference if an enterprise's employees work
on several distros in parallel because these are part of their job (rsp.
the basis of their job) or whether somebody contributes packages on a
volunteered basis :)


Ralf