Re: Upcoming transition of FC3

Jason Edgecombe <jedgecombe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:53:59 -0400

Jim Popovitch wrote:

Matthew Nuzum wrote:

The problem, and we have all seen this, is that those in the 'know' are
not the ones who would sue FL.  All it will take is for FL to
automagically update one package that breaks a custom billing

application on a bored lawyer's computer....   I don't think the 

risk is

worth trying to be noble.

Rather than auto-updating by default, why not just disable network
interfaces at EOL?

-Jim P.

Very intriguing idea... I'll bet this could be developed into a ton of

excellent sys-admin jokes. I'd like it if someone posted the 

suggestion to

Slashdot so I can read all the replies it would generate.

An interesting way to make everyone happy in future generations would 

be to

create the FCL repo before the FC version is even released. Then 

everyone

could have the FCL repo in their yum config from the very beginning. 

Since

there's nothing eventful going on with FCL's repo until FCx+2 is 

near, it

would have no impact. However, once EOL comes up and FCL takes over, new

updates will automatically start coming from the FCL repo. This 

drastically

reduces the likelihood of an unpleasant surprise.

The chief issue I see is with the implementation as Redhat/Fedora and 

FL are two completely different organizations.  People trust Redhat, 

but those same people don't transfer that trust to FL probably due to 

the looseness of FL.

Basically you would have to convince RH's lawyers to allow you to take 

over responsibility for their EOL'ed systems.  Right now the RH 

lawyers don't care.  We could have the FL lawyers, opps there are no 

FL lawyers.  ;-)  What you need is for the RH lawyers to provide a way 

for you to add yum configs to something they are still responsible for.

This issue isn't a technical one, it is a legal one.

-Jim P.

1. Those people are already trusting Fedora Extras.

2. I've met some professionals who didn't know about FL and thought they 

were getting updates, just none had come out in a while.

Jason

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