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Fedora 8 end-of-life is January 7

From:  "Jon Stanley" <jonstanley-AT-gmail.com>
To:  fedora-announce-list-AT-redhat.com
Subject:  Reminder of Fedora 8 end-of-life
Date:  Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:34:01 -0500
Message-ID:  <da159fda0811262134r446060a7xe04fb525af45da07@mail.gmail.com>

As a reminder, Fedora has a policy of ending maintenance for a release
one month after the release of Fedora N+2 (i.e. Fedora 8 maintenance
would end one month after Fedora 10 was released).  In this instance,
that date would be December 25.

At today's FESCo meeting [1], it was decided to slightly deviate from
this policy.   This decision was made in order to avoid having it
happen over the holidays, since according to policy, EOL would have
been on Christmas Day.

It was therefore decided to extend the end-of-life date of Fedora 8 to
Jan 7, 2009. After this time, there will be no more updates, including
security updates, issued for Fedora 8, and new builds will no longer
be allowed in koji, our buildsystem.

Also at or shortly after that time, all bugs open against Fedora 8
will be closed, since no more updates will be made.

Thanks!
-Jon

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-No...

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Fedora 8 end-of-life is January 7

Posted Nov 30, 2008 17:09 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (2 responses)

The irony is that Jan 7th is Christmas day in Orthodox countries who use unreformed Ecclesiastical calendar in their religion.

Fedora 8 end-of-life is January 7

Posted Dec 1, 2008 6:24 UTC (Mon) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

Which means that Dec. 25th would be a great time to do the upgrade, leaving a couple of weeks to spare.

Fedora 8 end-of-life is January 7

Posted Dec 1, 2008 15:09 UTC (Mon) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]

In Belarus Christmas is celebrated twice, on December 25th and January 7th as both Catholic and Orthodox churches are mainstream religions in the country. Typically the period between Christmases is the time of vacations, so one better upgrade before the end of December.


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