Hosting End-Of-Life Fedora Base images?

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Monday, July 20, 2015 01:00:34 PM Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Adam Miller
> 
> <maxamillion at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> >     There was an issue ticket filed against the Fedora Docker Base
> > 
> > Images[0] github repo requesting that older End-Of-Life'd (EOL'd)
> > Fedora releases be made available as docker images[1] and I'm not
> > personally very inclined to do this because I think EOL'd releases
> > should be left alone once they are OEL'd but I wanted to open the
> > discussion to see if others would be interested.
> 
> Even if this is positioned as "archival" or "research", I think
> providing these after EOL is simply going to lead to further use of an
> EOL Fedora.  That is essentially setting up those users for security
> exploits and a poor user experience when none of their bugs will be
> fixed.
I agree with Josh 100% here. we should not enable people to run unsupported 
software.

Dennis
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