On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:56 +0300, Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote:
Talking with a big Red Hat representative for Europe, he stated that Red Hat will stop providing updates for the current FCx 1-2 months before the official release of the next coming FCx+1.
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 06:14 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Err, that's not "internal information,", it's the official Fedora policy as stated at http://fedora.redhat.com/about/faq/ (see "What is the errata policy for The Fedora Project?").
I think the _current_ Policy is dropping FC[x-1] 1-2 months before FC[x +1], typically at FC[x+1] Test 2. FC[x] remains _until_ FC[x+2] Test 2.
I assume Nikos meant that the Red Hat rep stated the change would be dropping FC[x] 1-2 months before FC[x+1], possibly at FC[x+1] Test 2. That would mean there would be 1-2 months where _no_ Fedora Core release was considered "current."
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:56 +0300, Nikos Zaharioudakis wrote:
At my point of view, this could mean a further push to drive current FCx or FCx-1 installations to migrate either to RHEL -----> or to CentOS :-)).
At my point of view, Red Hat would _shoot_themselves_in_the_foot_. As I have repeatedly stated, if Red Hat sacrifices Fedora Core adoption, they only hurt the adoption, testing and stability of the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.
So far, Red Hat has been very precise and consistent in all their Fedora Core moves, nothing unexpected. E.g., Much of Red Hat's policy on Fedora Core existed 2-3 years in Red Hat Linux before the creation of the project -- in many cases as a "clarification" that they don't like to support 6-7 simultaneous revisions and only do 2-3 (typically the "last .2/.3" until the "next .1/.2" came out).
So I chalk this up to either:
A) A utterly Fedora and, subsequently, RHEL destroying move
B) A Red Hat European sales rep with a "Joachim Kempin" syndrome -- someone Red Hat should _fire_immediately_