Expiring the Fedora 10 ports on 2016-03-31

[René Ladan]

2016-02-18 20:58 GMT+01:00 Johannes Jost Meixner <johannes at perceivon.net>:
>
> Fedora 10 has been EoL'd by the Fedora project on 2009-12-17 [1] and
> thus has not been receiving any security updates during more than six
> (!) years.
>
> As a result of this, many of the ports that form the basis for the
> Fedora 10 infrastructure are riddled with more holes than a decent
> cheese, and with time passing by this isn't getting any better.
>
> I propose that we eliminate all Fedora 10 ports on March 31st --
>
> 2016-03-31.
>
> This because during the upcoming six weeks, those who have not managed
> to migrate off Fedora 10 will probably not do so at a later date, and
> because it will be a convenient date for not having it included in the
> 2016Q2 branch.
>
This sounds like a plan, f10 is indeed long overdue.

> During previous developer summits [2] it was mentioned that apparently
> some vendors depend on legacy software running off this Fedora 10.
>
> As CentOS itself is originally based on the Fedora 12 release (albeit,
> due to RHEL being around, is supported until  30 November, 2020 ),
> chances are these vendors will find that their software works
> flawlessly with CentOS 6.7 (as any game that I've tested during spring
> 2014 did).
>
So this might be a plausible upgrade path?
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life
> [2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/201407DevSummit/LinuxEmulation?highlight=%28legacy%20software%29
>
Regards,
René
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