Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 16:20 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 07:42 -0500, Robert Locke wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 06:36 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:07 -0500, Robert Locke wrote:
> > >  <snip>
> > > 
> > > c) Whether PR are processed by RH employees/Rawhide maintainers or
> > > others is irrelevant to users. The point that matters to users, is
> > > seeing a "continuous flow" of their distro, and not having to intervene
> > > into their system.
> > > 
> > 
> > I guess the part that I don't get is when will it end?
> Partially, but the core of it is about avoiding users having to change
> there repo configuration from "updates-released" to "legacy".
> 
As has been mentioned, this could be handled by a simple and quick yum
update to yum that changed the appropriate .repo files.

> 
> > > I.e. it all is a matter of organization, coordination and collaboration.
> > > One way to achieve this would be RH to silently let the "legacy team"
> > > take over maintenance, and continue to ship packages through Core.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure I endorse "silence".
> I'd call this collaboration of RH-maintainers with
> community-maintainers. Also, community maintained doesn't necessarily
> mean lack of quality ;-)
> 
> Just sending a notice to fedora-list@ on "legacy took over FC3" and
> adding a notice to the "News" on fedora.redhat.com could prevent
> confusion and misunderstands.
> 
> > > > But let's stop "demanding" and spend more effort "discussing" how we
> > > > can move forward.
> > > Well, this would require for the "RH-mountain" to move ;)
> > > 
> > 
> > We'll have to wait and see if the Foundation represents a real shift or
> > just a marketing event.... :-)
> As Andy pointed out, this issue had been discussed on *-devel, but the
> "mountain" didn't show any indication of moving.
> 
> Ralf
> 
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