On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 06:32, Joe Polk wrote: > I agree that the community could do it, but the point is that RH should. > Currently, according to the email that was sent, every version up to 8.0 will > die Dec. 2003. This just seems like the kind of TTL policy a much larger, > more domineering company would do (hint, hint). I understand rolling off > older versions as you move forward, but RH is dropping everything but the > latest release starting Dec. 2003. That's rediculous and hopefully the > community will respond. I use RH, own RH stock, I believe in RH, but this is > a stupid move. It ignores the many valid reasons why some choose to stay a > version or two behind the bleeding edge.
Red Hat has, several times in the past, expressed that they will support a distribution for "at least 12 months", and never more than that. Until now, they've provided support for some releases for considerably longer than that, but they have never promised to continue to do so. Everyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been paying attention. A 12 month support life, and Red Hat's release schedule, have always implied that an x.0 release will be de-supported at approximately the time that the x.2 release is made, and an x.2 release won't be supported quite long enough for an (x+1).2. Yes, I think that sorta sucks. I would have hoped that a release which marks the end of a major series (e.g 7.3) would be supported a little longer than other releases, because shops tend to settle on such things. However, we were never promised that. 7.3 is actually being supported well longer than the promised 12 months, right up until I'd expect an 8.2 release to be made (but even that is speculation... there's no such thing as 8.2 ;) Maybe Red Hat will extend the life of 7.3, and maybe they won't. I'm not upset either way. I know that *someone* will be making errata releases for 7.3 for some time, because I'll be doing it if no one else is (though I suspect that Matthias Saou is likely to do so). -- Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
