Status of RPM Fusion for EL

[Rahul Sundaram]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
> And I think it makes the most sense, as the Z-Streams/the Extended 
> Update Support (EUS) (e.g. update support for 5.1 after 5.2 is out) 
> are only done for certain releases, only for a shorter lifespan and 
> only if you pay extra for them iirc. Hence the bulk of users always 
> will be on the latest release of a RHEL family (RHEL4, RHEL5).
>
Well, that's not true. Lots of customers stick to older point releases 
sometimes because they need to do a large amount of inhouse testing 
before deploying new updates (complex interactions between custom build 
software etc) and sometimes because ISV's certify against point releases 
and so on.  However EPEL/ RPMFusion needs to weight the benefit of 
supporting such customers. Atleast, for a while, it probably is a good 
idea not to spread our resources too thin.

Rahul