Status of RPM Fusion for EL

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 10.11.2008 20:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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).

I addition: CentOS has no Z-Streams, hence all CentOS users afaics will 
be always on the latest RHEL release of each family

> Well, that's not true.

Wohh, strong words. Just out of interest (I don't want to spread wrong 
information's): What precisely is not true?

Please note that I fully agree to this:

> 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. 

I don't doubt that. But note that my point was that the bulk of users 
(maybe majority would have been the better word) is on the latest 
release of a RHEL family (RHEL4, RHEL5). And it seems you agree to that:

> 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.

Or do you think it's just easier to support the latest release?

CU
knurd