Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Sean Estabrooks]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:21:48 +0200
Tim Kossack <tim_kossack at web.de> wrote:

> Am Mit, den 24.09.2003 schrieb Sean Estabrooks um 19:21:
> 
> > Fedora Legacy is not maintained by RedHat.   Anyone can release
> > updates
> > for as long as they want.  No problems there.   But RHN updates to the
> > Fedora core are explicitly stated to be available for up to 3 months
> > after
> > the next release.   But as mentioned in the FAQ there isn't even a SLA
> > for
> > this period of updates.
> 
> i haven't fully understood how the bugfixing/updating-process will work:
> 
> does red hat provide bugfixes for fedora core over rhn (for free?), and
> the bugfixes for the add-ons are provided via apt4rpm or yum for the
> external reps? 
> or will all the bugfixes (provided by red hat or the 3rd-parties) be
> avaible over rhn?
> 

Here is how i interpret what is available on the Fedora web site:

Fedora Core updates _will_ be via RHN.   These maintenance updates will
only be available for 2 to 3 months after the following release of Fedora.
That means you'd get 6 to 9 months of updating for each release from RHN.
After that you'll have to rely on 3rd parties.  In any case RedHat
explicitly states there will NOT be a Service Level Agreement attached to
_ANY_ package updates for Fedora whether in the maintenance period or not.

Check out   http://fedora.redhat.com  to make your own interpretation.

Sean.