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During 4 or 5 month, I agree to have +</I>><i> no improvements or no bug corrections but security updates are useful. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I dont' want to replace Mga1 with Mga2 and 4 month later play again for Mga2 +</I>><i> to Mga3. I have also other machines with Mga2 and with Mandriva 2010.2. +</I>><i> I dont need a LTS but a Short Term Support is a bad thing and I don't want to +</I>><i> waste my time. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Is it possible to have security updates until a month after Mga3 is out? +</I> +My feeling on this is that we have an 18 month support cycle *because* we have a 9 month development cycle, so we support for the length of +two release cycles, so that if one release causes major problems, or you don't have time to upgrade every single time, you can skip one +release and still stay supported. This works fine unless a release gets delayed like Mageia 2 did (which is fine) and probably most will a +little bit at least. I believe the support should continue to run until release+2 is out. + +The problem is there isn't a company with paid employees providing the support, it's a community distro with all volunteers, so we can only +continue to provide support if there are people willing and able to do the work. + +As you may know, I do a lot of the packaging work on security updates. I also depend on some other packagers to do some of that work, but as +time passes, less and less of them have either the time or willingness to continue to work on Mageia 1, so it gets more difficult to continue +to support everything as time passes. Also, even if we can get updates packaged, we need QA people to test them, and we continue to need +more help with QA, as it's a very small number of people doing the vast majority of the work. QA is responsible for not only testing updates +for stable distros, but also testing every single ISO (including alphas, betas, and RCs) we release. + +So, to make a long story short, extending support for Mageia 1 was discussed by the council, but unfortunately rejected, mostly IINM because +of the burden on QA. Again, that's not to blame anyone, but QA is a lot of work that's done by few people. So if they're not willing or +able to continue to support it, unless new people step up to fill that void, we just don't have the ability to continue to provide support. + +As the person who does a lot of the packaging for security updates, I am willing to continue the work I do on it, especially since I haven't +had time yet to move my and my family's workstations to Mageia 2, and probably won't until late December, but I don't have a way to +distribute any new packages. The build system has closed for Mageia 1. SVN should still be open, so I suppose I could check things in there +and anyone interested could build from it locally? I don't want to host my own repository somewhere. + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="020463.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 1 EOL. +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="020468.html">[Mageia-dev] Mageia 1 EOL. +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#20466">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#20466">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#20466">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#20466">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |