On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:46:50PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
The big issue with Fedora Legacy though was trying to do too much. We were supporting RHL-7.3, RHL-8 and RHL-9 and old Fedora's. You pick
And it turned out that very few people wanted to do the work to support Fedora, just old RHL.
If you really want to do this, I suggest starting *opposite* RHEL 6. People who want something kinda like Fedora 13 to last for a very long time already have their answer. Wait a year and a half, though, and people will start itching a little bit. And then they'll want what they picked at that point to last forever.
- We did not have a target audience beyond "everyone who was left
behind on RHL's crash and burn." [Yes people called it that and worse at the time]
Yeah, this. :)
If Fedora had been ready to pick up at that point, things might have been different. But it's putting it mildly to say that the project floundered a bit for the first few releases.
- We define what our expected audience is and we keep them with stuff
they are looking for. This means figuring out a key 'visionary' market and supplying them with things they need. [The classic RHL market was web servers (ok 'porn') but we can find something more web-3.0 and help them get ahead.]
Hello, cloud-sig. :)