On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 05:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Ezra Nugroho wrote: > > >>This has always been the policy so far. FC X goes legacy when Fedora Z > >>test 2 gets released. If you care about Fedora X at that point, join the > >>Fedora Legacy team and contribute. > >> > >>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy > >> > >> > > > >FWIW, > > > >Prior to FC 5, there were always two test releases. > > > > > Incorrect. See http://fedora.redhat.com/About/schedule/ > > >With FC 5, we have 3 test releases, which pushes the GA a little longer. > >I think the decision to have 3 test releases, and to have a longer life- > >cycle is wise. But I would rather see FC 3 being maintained a little > >longer. Maybe even until FC 5 test 3 is out. > >You can see it as the same policy: FC X is out when FC X+2 last test > >release is out. > > > > > Its not the same policy since Fedora Core always had three test releases > but you still had a relatively long maintenance cycle by the virtue of > Fedora Core 5 prolonged development cycle . To put this in perspective, > > Fedora Core 2 was released in 18 May 2004 and went into legacy mode in > 11th April 2005. Thats 11 months of updates from Fedora Core and ongoing > updates from Fedora Legacy which will probably run into nearly 2 years. > In comparison, Fedora Core 3 was release in 8 November 2004 and went > into legacy mode in 16th January 2006. Thats 1 year and 1 month of > updates from Fedora Core. Fedora Legacy now maintains Red Hat Linux 7.3, > 9. Fedora Core 1, 2 and 3 and they have committed themselves to continue > maintaining Core 1 and subsequent releases as long as there is a > community interest in it. So get your hands dirty with the work required > in providing security and critical bug fixes if you care about these > releases now. You can do package maintenance, QA, documentation, site > maintenance etc. ---- Just wanted to say thanks to Rahul for showing patience and dealing with all of us grumpy people who wish things happened differently than they do. I am presently dealing with issues on my other system which was upgraded from 3 to 4 a few weeks ago in anticipation of this day. Thanks Craig
