Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:38:37PM -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:31:44AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > you know, there is a Fedora based release that promises long term
> > > stability and quality...
>
> > I know, but in that case there are customers, it is very different,
> > there are contracts.
>
> People associate a name (Fedora, or RHEL, or IBM) with a certain
> expectation.
The RHEL and IBM names are very different from the Fedora one.
No. All come with (hard-earned) reputations. Different ones, sure. But
nevertheless valuable.
> If I came along and offered you a support contract for RHEL at
> half the price, and promising the same level of support, would you take it?
Here you are meaning that Fedora can offer support for free.
It does! You trust them to fix bugs, and keep your system reasonably
secure, don't you?
It
isn't
the same issue. Of course reputation is important. And Fedora reputation
may be good. And price doesn't make the reputation, but it creates
obligations a reputation doesn't create.
Keeping the reputation creates the obligation, price is besides the point.
[...]
> What you would be squandering here is Fedora's good name.
All for "OK,
> let's LTS this one. But someone critical might get bored in a month or two
> and drop it with little warning, so take care"?
Don't call it fedora then. Once again the name is not the issue.
Great.
All is missing now is the hordes of people interested in extending the life
of e.g. Fedora 7 for 4 years more. Please, stand orderly in line, everybody
will have their turn at helping out.
> Again, the offer was made repeatedly to (help) set up a SIG,
contact
> interested parties in founding an LTS, ... and /nobody/ has stepped
> forward. Telling, ist't it?
It doesn't tell anything since it was also said repeatedly that
people
wanting to do it will have to do it against the will of the fedora
rulers (the boards, infrastructure team...).
What I've seen here is exactly the opposite...
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