On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:23:48AM +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Fedora Project isn't providing as good a service as it could, with just > a teensy bit more effort. I think you underestimate the effort involved with maintaining another branch of packages. Bumping up to the newest version of a package isn't always feasible, and it's a ton of work backporting fixes to older releases. Tracking three streams of development is a nightmare (And this doesn't even count RHEL streams that your average Red Hat developer works on in parallel). Handing off releases to legacy has been a great way of freeing up developer time so that the stability of the current release increases and the next release gets into a state ready for shipping. Just the amount of time saved doing bugzilla triage on FC3 is going to pay off huge now that it's reached EOL. I got the kernel bugcount pretty low at EOL, and now I can go about doing the same thing for FC4, which has been suffering at the expense of FC3 for a while. Dave
