Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
It seemed to me that Rahul was being particularly obtuse, and does not
recognise that the Fedora Project's service forces people into
undesireable choices. It makes me wonder whether he properly
understands "support."
Setting aside the fact, that Red Hat nor me has any obligation to
provide support services for Fedora, Fedora Project provides does
provide both updates through legacy as a service. Unsure why you would
consider my responses obtuse. You havent expanded on why you wouldnt
choose to use Fedora Legacy updates or what concerns you have in waiting
Fedora Project isn't providing as good a service as it could, with just
a teensy bit more effort. Retire the oldest release _after_ the second
later release instead of before it.
If all the security problems really are fixed, it won't even cost
signficant effort.
I thought I did offer some reasons I don't wish to use FL; even if you
don't understand my reluctance to use it, you don't need to, any more
than Ford needs understand why some people prefer white cars.
Let me try again. Today, IMV upgrading to FC4 is not sensible. It offers
neither the latest techology, nor any reasonable lifetime, nor the
stability (I'm guessing, but them my opinion's the one that colours my
decisions) of FC3.
I am prepared to update FC3 to a new release when a sensible choice is
available. FC5 will, I expect offer new technlogy and a life of about a
year, two advantages over FC4. I'll take a chance on stability[as in not
crashing] (but not where stability is of primary concern).
Now, there is a window where Fedora Project will not support the release
I am using at present, and so forcing me to a decision I should not need
to make.
I don't mind that FL exists, and I am in fact using it to support a RHL
7.3 box that's doing all it needs to do and has for years.
However, I resent that FP presumes to force me to use FL, all for the
lack of a lick of paint.
till the GA release of Fedora Core 5 considering the fact that there
isnt any major security issues with FC3 that needs to be addressed
before FC5.
The fact you don't know about any security issues doesn't mean one won't
surface in the next five minutes.
I have better thinks to do than make pointless changes to my computer
systems.
What is pointless specifically? Would Fedora legacy repository available
by default resolve this issue?
Seems like a reasonable course of action.
OTOH I am a user (and a supporter), but not a developer, and the level
of support is a user concern.
It has to be addressed by the developers so if you want any action to be
done, you have to post to the developer's list. Users cannot address any
development related concerns.
Again, I don't think it a reasonable expectation that all of us users
who want to discuss this matter should be expected to join the
developers' list and the FP list and the ...
There _are_ developers on this list, and this list is archived so the
developers can catch up on the discussion. As can the FL folk.
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Cheers
John
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