Re: New proposed top level FAQ for the defunct FedoraLegacy project

2007-02-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hat doesnt actually determine the release cycle or lifespan for that. The release features as well as resources available is the criteria for that. Fedora release cycle is around every 6 months and the lifespan for each release is around 13 months now. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-l

Re: New proposed top level FAQ for the defunct FedoraLegacy project

2007-02-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
from Red Hat. Asking for more would require a good business case for it. I doubt you can find one easily. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: Legacy wiki -- statement?

2006-12-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
to do (which is for around 13 months), people who are expecting a longer lifecyle should contribute towards that and find the middle ground they need to. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: Upgrading FC releases via yum

2006-11-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
positories. When Fedora Core adopted the extras packaging guidelines a number of packages didnt have a proper upgrade path and I had to do some post upgrade manual clean up. It isnt yet good enough for me to recommend to new users. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@

Re: Wiki Correction

2006-11-13 Thread Rahul Sundaram
correct link. http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/4/updates/i386/yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch.rpm Thanks. Fixed. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

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 d

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

2006-11-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
pared to active upstream or new release development. Unifying and opening up more of the infrastructure and other ideas like that only doing critical security fixes are things to look at. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

2006-08-15 Thread Rahul
just have to enable it. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: when is the estimated EOL date for FC3/FC4 -- RE: FC1 and FC2 end of life

2006-07-31 Thread Rahul
Guolin Cheng wrote: Rahul, DO you know when is the estimated EOL data for FC3/FC4? Thanks. --Guolin Thats answered in the FAQ. See the 1-2-3 and out policy. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/FAQ Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https

Re: FC1 and FC2 end of life

2006-07-31 Thread Rahul
ll be stopped. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: Moving Mozilla to Seamonkey

2006-07-27 Thread Rahul
Marc Deslauriers wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 03:42 +0530, Rahul wrote: In general, IMO, Fedora Legacy errata policy should be to bump up to the newer upstream version on ancillary packages and backport fixes to only libraries or software that have other visible major dependencies and

Re: Moving Mozilla to Seamonkey

2006-07-27 Thread Rahul
interfaces which are known to be used by third parties. If there isnt any opposition to this, I will add this piece of info to the wiki pages and FAQ on legacy. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: [Legacy] Mentoring for vulnerability bug tracking -- kernel, and general

2006-06-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
whatever system used by the Fedora Security Team should be adopted by Fedora Legacy after discussion with the relevant contributors. Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: Heads up! Firefox & Mozilla

2006-04-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
efore 1.5 and > 1.0.x before 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite before 1.7.13, and SeaMonkey before 1.0, > according to CVE-2006-0749. > > Be careful out there! We'll get these out for Legacy as soon as we can. Updates have been announced for Fedora Core 4 and Fedora Core 5. It should be easy

Re: Good news....

2006-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
edora Core 4 and I dont see a single reason why Fedora Legacy is different. Flip a bit in an existing file if you *dont* want it and Pirut might add a graphical interface to do that even. -- Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/ma

Re: Rebuild exisitng errata for x86_64?

2006-03-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Jesse Keating wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 10:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: The way I see it, Fedora Extras and Core already have access to PPC systems and Legacy is meanwhile waiting for hardware donations. If we share the infrastructure and we are well integrated, that shouldnt be

Re: Rebuild exisitng errata for x86_64?

2006-03-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Jesse Keating wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 10:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Thats strange. How does RHL content affect the ability of Fedora Legacy to use Fedora Extras buildsystems?. I didnt see any public discussion happening on this and we definitely need the details spelled out more

Re: Rebuild exisitng errata for x86_64?

2006-03-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Jesse Keating wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 10:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: So perhaps an obvious question is could Red Hat internal build systems used by Fedora Core or the ones used for Fedora Extras be spared a few cycles for Fedora legacy on x86_64/PPC or do you want to keep the

Re: Rebuild exisitng errata for x86_64?

2006-03-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
to the project we need to list what exactly is required for them to participate. While the QA procedures for example are documented, the requirement for a PPC system is not. The website needs a highlighted list of such documentation. -- Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-leg

Re: FC3 yum instructions

2006-02-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
uture. For those who hate the wiki with a passion, we will have a CMS system soon in fedoraproject.org. Plone+Zope and a few other custom utilities and scripts. -- Rahul -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Mike McCarty wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: This is not a discussion about personal opinions on QA policies within I haven't presumed to dictate the content of your messages, or state what your intended topic was. Please grant me the same privilege. Or are you acting as a moderator?

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
. The time spend in discussions on the list could be directed towards actual work. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Mike McCarty wrote: Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi Yes, my indictment earlier was for *all* distributions of Linux. But Legacy has gone further than I can follow along, that's all. We are merely discussing a proposal so legacy process hasnt gone further That is not my understanding

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
know?. If they are better are you willing to get involved in QA with the legacy project to help it be better?. Thats what we need. More contributors working on it. Other discussions is just fluff. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
e." I would like to see what the formal policies within these projects are for doing QA is. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
;We know that, at the moment, there is no real quality assurance for Debian, in a conventional meaning of that term". Feel free to look for better QA processes than Fedora legacy within the community distributions and suggest ideas. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
"unless we get a lot of objection" so please, if you object, let it be known. I did object, and then I saw that the decision was *made*. A decision hasnt been made. Even if one has been made it can be reverted. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZapp

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
urage me from using the repository. Hopefully see the need for contributors to do the actual work involved including QA and look into that instead of moving away from the project. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list f

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
ary QA votes get published before the timeout hits, the package will be released sooner. Then the Legacy Project has removed my ability not to subscribe to "testing". Seems to be a misunderstanding here. There are separate repositories for testing and general legacy updates. Yes

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
James Kosin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: It is referred from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy which has a link from the frontpage. How is that buried in clutter?. What can we do to improve that?\ Don't get personal, I'

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
nite amount of time awaiting feedback. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
James Kosin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/QATesting. OK, It is a little buried in the clutter. I've seen this page many times, but never really dig-ed into it. It is referred from

Re: no mandatory QA testing at all [Re: crazy thought about how to ease QA testing]

2006-02-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
document on the whole process for everyone to review and agree upon... unless something like this already exists... which I've never seen. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legacy/QATesting. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing

Re: Contributor License Agreement (CLA)?, Re: Wiki page updated

2006-01-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
there are some potential changes like the CLA which might be projected for everyone's benefit and for the management to be streamlined across various Fedora Projects. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers Ps: It would be helpful if people can ask ques

Re: Contributor License Agreement (CLA)?, Re: Wiki page updated

2006-01-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
as also been copied over into the wiki in anticipation of the depreciation of http://fedoralegacy.org in favor of adding information to the primary Fedora Project website at http://fedoraproject.org. Comments and feedback is most welcome. Rahul, you removed text mentioning what distributions o

Re: Maintenance? Re: Proposed changes to Fedora Legacy Project

2006-01-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
m/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-January/msg00744.html -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Wiki page updated

2006-01-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
feedback is most welcome. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list

Re: Proposed changes to Fedora Legacy Project

2006-01-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Hi Rahul, I just browsed through some fedora-devel-list posts from this month, so far all I see is two people in a thread: "RFE: Retire Fedora Core 4 only _after_ FC6 has been released." who mention that they think "legacy" has negative connotation(s). Are the

Re: Proposed changes to Fedora Legacy Project

2006-01-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
would bother reading about it. -- Rahul Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list