Summer of Code

[Luke Schierer]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:26:26PM -0400, Stu Tomlinson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 21:23 -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > I think it is reasonable to consider, in that we ship RPMs. If we were
> > only releasing a tarball, then I'd agree that it doesn't matter.
> > 
> > But why bother with RPMs for distro versions that are under lesser
> > standards of support anyway?
> 
> I'm sorry, what? What is 7 years of support lesser to?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stu.

Reading the descriptions again, it still looks like "Phase2" (3-6.5
years post release) is lesser than "Phase1" support.  It looks like they
are more liberal in applying updates in "Phase1" than in "Phase2."

It also seems to me that 7 years is a long time to be supporting a GTK
release.

luke