Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd May 2007 18:29 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Several months ago, the Fedora Board (in consultation with Red Hat Engineering) decided to increase the length of time that Fedora releases are supported, in terms of updates. This decision was retroactively applied to Fedora Core 5, allowing it to remain a fully maintained release for several months longer than it would have under the old policy. Fedora Core 5 will reach its end of life for updates on Friday June 29th, 2007."
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2006-09-21
I maintain Linux systems for a few people. Most of them just want things to work, and don't want things to change to much when part of the system is upgraded. (Because too many changes means too much relearning.) Obviously you cannot get that with Fedora, so I won't bother giving them that. So they lose them as users.
On the other hand I, as their maintainer, don't want to use something radically different from what they are using (again, more time spent learning differences). They don't want to use something different from me either, because they know that will mean that I'm less effective at providing them support. So they lose me as a user as well.
Now me and my friends may not count for much to the Fedora developers. I'm fine with that. But I would like to point out that if you turn away enough users there will be noone left to use it and no future generation developers to maintain it. (This, in my opinion, is what happened to the BSDs and is happening to Debian. If you aren't responsive, you lose favour.)