Guy Fraser wrote: > On Tue, 2006-17-01 at 14:56 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: >> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>>> I I don't want to join it for the sake of a month; I wish to go from >>>> three to five. I prefer not to rejig my yum configurations and/or >>>> up2date configurations, and I don't wish to go to four at this late >>>> state. >>> >>> Pretty simple. Continue getting updates from Fedora Legacy till Fedora >>> Core 5 is released. >> Take your fingers out of you ears; I alread said that's not what I want >> to do. >> >>>> "responsibility to contribute." >>>> >>>> Jo and I don't contribute? You gotta be joking. We've both been >>>> helping out on these lists for years (with a minor break or two when >>>> RH left us). >>> >>> If you would like to get updates from Fedora Legacy project for a longer >>> duration you will have to contribute to that project specifically which >>> is what I meant earlier in context. >>> >> We don't want to get updates from FL. We'd like support for the outgoing >> release (FC3 now, FC4 next time) to remain as it was until the second >> successor is out and (somewhat) stabilised, so there are always two >> releases supported by FP. >> >> >> Jo and I (and a lot of others) switched from RH back when RH announced >> its changed arrangements, and the commencement of the Fedora project >> because neither RH not FC provided what we wanted. >> >> We've dabbled in others including Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, >> Mandrake/Mandribble and some others. >> >> I currently run Debian/Woody, Debian/Sarge, Ubuntu, FC3, SUSE 10 and >> WBEL, so I know what the major alternatives are, >> >> We're asking just for a teensy extension to the support offered by FP. >> Instead of 13 months for FC3, maybe 14 (FC5+1 say, instead of FC5-1). >> > Hey John, there is no use beating a dead horse. Once a decision is made > there is never any chance it will be reversed. I have finally accepted > this fact. And if I continue to use FC, I have resigned my self to > live with what I am given and just be happy if it works for me, when > it doesn't, I figure out how to live with what I can make work myself. > It has been made very clear that this is what is expected of FC users. > When something breaks, send a bugzilla if there aren't already a bunch > for the same problem, then figure out how to live with problem until > the package is no longer supported or possibly gets fixed. Remember > we are the extended testing ground for the Enterprise products and > should be resigned to be treated as such. > > By the way FC5t2 seems OK so far, but I will get Ubuntu just in case > the final release is as broken as FC4 was, so I have something stable. > > You guys sound like the people that use Mandriva. ;-) -- David
