Not quite two iterations

Posted Apr 14, 2005 12:48 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: a more stable Fedora by skvidal
Parent article: Fedora leaves a vast legacy

Actually, Fedora supports a release for about an iteration and a half. FC2 has gone unsupported, but FC4 isn't due until June... Full support for two iterations plus a little would help a lot; then one could get away with upgrading once per year, which isn't that bad for a lot of systems.

Not quite two iterations

Posted Apr 14, 2005 12:53 UTC (Thu) by skvidal (guest, #3094) [Link]

Releases go over to legacy on the same day as the release of the second test release of an iteration+1. It was setup this way so fedora developers wouldn't be distracted by updates for release-2 while trying to get the current release out the door.

remember, at this point red hat is maintaining:
rhel 2.1
rhel 3
rhel 4
fedora core (2 releases at any given time)
and trying to develop for the next release.

A non-trivial amount of work.

I think the best way to increase the lifespan is to decrease the packages in core. If we can get core down to 2 cds or so and offload package maintenance of the other items to external developers in fedora extras then it'd make life a lot better for maintaining core longer.

-sv