Fedora 6 EOL
For those not recieving the fedora-announce mailing list, I just wanted to let you know about the Fedora 6 EOL(End of Life) Discussion, and to all, I’d like to reveal my opinion on the matter.
They entered discussion on what to do with the Extras for FC6 after F8 is released. For those who don’t know, the lifecycle for each release is ~13 months or 1 month after release F+2(”F” stands for any Fedora/Core release). Someone mentioned the EOL for the Extras to be a month before their release’s EOL. It was then that someone referenced this page in the Fedora Project Wiki. Upon reading that, I concluded that the policy stated that the release’s Extras were to reach EOL on the same day as the release.
Before reading that information though, I decided that the packages should be removed on the release date of the “final” test release of F+2. My reason for this is two-fold. First, this would give adequate time to test for, and then move compatible packages to the F+x release’s Extras. Second, and quite similar, would be to get package maintainers to start looking to the F+x release a bit sooner.
If you have an opinion that you think is better than mine, let me know.
Everything descriptive is relative.
There are no ends, just beginnings replacing what is or what was.
