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Targeted support?Targeted support?Posted Oct 19, 2006 23:53 UTC (Thu) by pjhacnau (subscriber, #4223)In reply to: Why I left FL by tseaver Parent article: An empty legacy
I would have thought the people running FL would have checked with the volunteers as to what they wanted before arbitarily cutting off the preferred versions :-(
Maybe, if FL is to survive/be resurrected/etc it could do something closer to Ubuntu's approach to long-term support; say get the people actually _doing_ the support to agree on specific versions to support. E.g "Forget FC2,3,4 - we support FC1 and FC6, and we drop FC1 for FC(X > 6) when enough people are happy with it.
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Targeted support? Posted Oct 20, 2006 2:57 UTC (Fri) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094) [Link] Two items here:1. ubuntu has a team of paid people doing the LTS 2. So far we've not actually seen ubuntu do this. When they actually start maintaining a distro 2 and 3 years after its been released THEN we can start talking about it. However, seeing as they haven't had to do it yet it's all pure conjecture about what they may or may not be able to do.
Targeted support? Posted Oct 20, 2006 4:39 UTC (Fri) by pjhacnau (subscriber, #4223) [Link] I think use of the 'U' word distracted you from what I was suggesting :-)I wasn't suggesting "copy Ubuntu" - merely using the fact that they don't aim to LTS every release as a starting point for the idea.
Restating the idea without the 'U' word, it goes something like this:
1) If you rely mostly on volunteers, you piss them off at your peril.
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