Re: could Fedora please reverse its policy re End-Of-Life

2018-11-14 Thread Martijn Ras
The update frequency is twice a year, the method is fully documented: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DNF_system_upgrade Simply refresh, download, reboot and wait a little while ... It's hardly a burden, I've got at least 5 machines that have been upgraded this way since Fedora 13. Op wo 14

Re: could Fedora please reverse its policy re End-Of-Life

2018-11-14 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 02:26:09PM +0100, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > Je mer, 2018-11-14 je 12:28 +0100, Miroslav Suchý skribis: > > This is the core issue. We only have a limited manpower. You have three > > things to choose from: free of charge > > distribution, long support, fresh versions

Re: could Fedora please reverse its policy re End-Of-Life

2018-11-14 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Je mer, 2018-11-14 je 12:28 +0100, Miroslav Suchý skribis: > This is the core issue. We only have a limited manpower. You have three > things to choose from: free of charge > distribution, long support, fresh versions of SW in distribution - but we can > only choose two of them. > > [...] > >

Re: could Fedora please reverse its policy re End-Of-Life

2018-11-14 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 14. 11. 18 v 2:23 steve schooler napsal(a): > I recognize that since Fedora is FREE, the developers face an enormous > burden. However, I suspect that many will feel as I do that it is an onerous > user-burden to have to frequently upgrade/re-install. Further, > forum-technical-support,

Re: could Fedora please reverse its policy re End-Of-Life

2018-11-13 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 9:14 PM steve schooler wrote: > > > I am currently using Fedora 26. When I first heard of your (new) End-Of-Life > policy, I hoped that the Fedora developer community would be so inundated > with complaints that the policy would be reversed. Instead however, the >

Re: could Fedora please reverse its policy re End-Of-Life

2018-11-13 Thread Kevin Kofler
steve schooler wrote: > I am currently using Fedora 26. When I first heard of your (new) > End-Of-Life policy, That policy is not new. It has been like that for years, and before that the lifetime was even shorter. > If you agree but need to first alleviate current burdens, then I suggest >

could Fedora please reverse its policy re End-Of-Life

2018-11-13 Thread steve schooler
This email is a hail mary pass. I posted the following message to the Fedora forum: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/129083/could-fedora-please-reverse-its-policy-re-end-of-life/ Part of the _closing_ response was for me to redirect the message to a fedora.org mailing list