On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:23 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:50 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been following a very interesting discussion in fedora-list
about
> the recent transfer of FC3 to Fedora Legacy.
>
> Following Rahul's suggestion, I'm starting this discussion in
-devel.
>
> I'm asking the FC foundation to consider the following:
>
> 1. Fedora's policy dictates that old releases (Current - 2) will be
> retired once the new release hits Test2.
I'm missing in your whole reasoning the link between the transfer to
legacy and upgrading. You imply it, but you don't explain the causal
relationship, which I think isn't there.
The policy actually sort of is "a few months after the next release so
that people can see it being stable enough". A good anchor for that
"few
months" is -test2 release.
I think the problem is that some people see the support as
current version + two versions - one beta = test2 release
whereas you are seeing it as:
current version + one version + a few months = test2 release
If you are in the first camp then it is easy to ask for support to be
extended so that there is a window of a single day where you can go from
current version to current version plus two.
I know I fell into the first camp (even though I keep up to date with
the current version) and it wasn't until I saw your email that I even
noticed the rational of the second camp.
I would suggest that a better explanation of how the support window was
settled upon should be created and publicised as much as possible.
Keith.