fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Thursday 26 of August 2010 21:21:53 Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > We probably need to attack this trend more aggressively, like putting
> > expiration dates into the installer after which it'll just refuse to
> > install, stuffing fedora-release-n+1 into the Fedora n updates repository
> > at Fedora n's EOL date etc.
> 
> Not only is this disingenuous, but it also contradicts Fedora's
> "Freedom" policy.  Adding a big fat warning message to the installer,
> however, is much less of a problem and gets the message across just as
> effectively.  Just make sure that the "expiration date" is far enough
> out in the future that we can be certain that it will occur after the
> release's EOL date since we don't know when that will be at the time of
> image creation.

I don't think it should be far enough. It should be some time before EOL 
happens. What's the point installing and configuring new system that will EOL 
tomorrow / after one week? But still... +1 to warning message in the installer