On 12 Mar 2003, Joseph Phillips wrote: >Date: 12 Mar 2003 15:46:18 -0800 >From: Joseph Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain >List-Id: <phoebe-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: Latest UTB Newsletter > >Quoting Brent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >"We shortened the support time on [Red Hat Linux]..." > >I wonder what he means by shortening the support time. Does this mean >that Red Hat Linux will be receive less QA time, less developer >attention to debugging? And if that is what it means, then what will be >the result? Will Red Hat Linux become less stable, filled with more >bugs, and overall less reliable?
No. Bad wording. We shortened the lifespan of Red Hat Linux base OS products. Under the old lifespan policies, basically we supported all products in a major cycle and the last product in the previous 2 cycles until the next cycle came out. Now we are supporting each base OS release for a length of time based on it's release date rather than the older method, as it makes more sense to support a release for "X amount of time" than to support it for "X amount of time depending on wether it is a .0 / .1 / .2 / .3 release". The base OS will continue to be developed and engineered as it always has, and will receive the same attention that it always has, since it is ultimately the technology that drives everything in all of our OS products. Quality assurance testing will continue to be done as much and even more than it has in the past. Hope this clarifies things a bit. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
