Re: Some supporting ideas regarding fedora legacy project when FC6 is out today

2006-11-07 Thread Tim Thome
Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: Hi, Glad that FC6 is out today for download/playing. But FC5 and FC6 are released too closely -- only three months apart. while FC4 had released over one year before FC5 appeared. Consequently, a lot of people and small organizations, as far as I know, have in

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Tim Thome
Eric Rostetter wrote: Quoting Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human resources and either someone needs to assign them to it if that entity (Red Hat/board/whatever) considers that a worthy goal, or the resources need to come from m

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Axel Thimm wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:46:37PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Unifying and opening up more of the infrastructure and other ideas like that only doing critical security fixes are things to look at. But FL's charter is already to only cater about security fixes, or do you imp

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:54:34PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:47, Axel Thimm wrote: > > The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human > > resources > > Well, if the barrier to contribute was lower, getting more people would be > easier.

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Axel Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human resources and either someone needs to assign them to it if that entity (Red Hat/board/whatever) considers that a worthy goal, or the resources need to come from more voluntary people, e

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:47, Axel Thimm wrote: > The issue is also not the infrstructure IMO, it's simply lack of human > resources Well, if the barrier to contribute was lower, getting more people would be easier. If it were say as easy as using the Extras build system so that any curren

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:46:37PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Unifying and opening up more of the infrastructure and other ideas like > that only doing critical security fixes are things to look at. But FL's charter is already to only cater about security fixes, or do you imply to categorize

Re: Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: gzip

2006-11-07 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, David Eisenstein wrote: > Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered two denial of service > flaws in the way gzip expanded archive files. If a victim expanded a > specially crafted archive, it could cause the gzip executable to hang or > crash. (CVE-2006-4334, CVE-200

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Axel Thimm wrote: I don't know if the board has power over suggesting to Fedora's sponsor, Red Hat, to resuffle its engineering resources, but if so, then it's a simple equation: If FL is indeed going to get more resources to prolong a Fedora release's lifespan then these resources need to be dr

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:21:26AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > > OK, I'll bite. What do you want exactly from the Board? > > Wave our magic Fedora wand to produce more (active) community contributors? > OK, lemme see, now where did I leave that darn thing... I see 2 things that could help: *

Re: You Need Fedora Legacy!! Re: [fab] looking at our surrent state a bit

2006-11-07 Thread Axel Thimm
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:21:26AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > David Eisenstein wrote: > > > Fedora Board, please take heed. Although providing a stable, long-term > > operating system/environment is *not* one of Fedora Project's stated > > goals, the practical lifetime of a Fedora release of 1 y