On Tuesday 04 November 2003 17:26, nosp wrote:
Is it the intention of the Legacy group to essentially enable a similar maintenance/sec/patch schedule to Debian/Stable and FreeBSD?
There was definitely some serious conversation a few weeks ago and I think the fact that the Legacy project made it to the Fedora Terminology page is a good indication it's serious. Anyone involved in that want to speak up?
Our current goal is to support a given FC release through the next 2 releases, and a short time into the third release after. A life span of about 17~19 months can be expected for a given FC release. RH will cover the first 7~9 months, Legacy will cover the next 10~ months.
Think of it as a 1-2-3-out method.
Nov: FC 1 is released. May: FC 2 is released. Jul: RH drops FC 1 support, Legacy picks it up. Nov: FC 3 is released Jan: RH drops FC 2 support, Legacy picks it up, release FC1 becomes deprecated. May: FC 4 is released Jul: RH drops FC 3 support, Legacy picks it up. Jul~Aug: Legacy drops support for FC1
lather, rinse, repeat.
RHL 7.3 and 9 are special cases, and will continue to be supported by Legacy for as long as there is community interest in said errata.