Feature proposal: Extended Life Cycle Support

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Sun Jul 5 06:20:38 UTC 2009


Jeroen van Meeuwen, Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:30:46 +0200:

> On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:13:14 +0200, Julian Aloofi
>> To be honest, I think environments that work like that won't use Fedora
>> anyway if it wasn't supported for at least three, let's say two and a
>> half, years.
> 
> Having to agree with your general statement -not necessarily the exact
> period- I think neither of us can commit to extending even a single
> release's life cycle to that extent right now. We'll have to start
> somewhere, as you'll agree, and so we're thinking of starting out here;
> 3 releases to maintain in parallel, for those that opt-in, excluding
> EPEL (which has long term support in all it's aspects already).

The problem I have with this whole project is that nobody explained me 
well, why you folks interested in this don't join CentOS project? NIH?

Matěj




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