[ATrpms-devel] ATrpms stats for deciding on EOLing distros

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:01:10AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 17 July 2006 06:40, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > o FC5 and FC4 almost on the same level still.
> 
> Heh, I've probably contributed to that by not updating a certain
> document for FC5 still...

Evil Jarod! ;)

> > o Rather few EL users.
> 
> How heavily do you think MythTV plays a role in that fact? RHEL5
> should be a better MythTV platform than RHEL4 (better DVB support
> possible), might even shift to recommending it myself...

Yes, I also anticipate RHEL5. It will already come equipped with a ton
of reasonable drivers and building kmdls will also become easier
(currently v4l won't build on 2.6.9).

Maybe there will be a shift from FC to RHEL in mythtv land, but in
general I thing RHEL has that few users because RHEL users are by
definition conservative and want to keep their systems clean of 3rd
parties.

> I'd more or less just mirror the FL schedule to start the distro demotion 
> process. Perhaps give people a few months (3?) of the distro in the demoted 
> state, then proceed with step 4.

See also the parallel reply on this. I'd keep the bits around till the
end of the year, so people can migrate or decide to pick them
up. Noone will hopefully do the latter, but offering the choice is the
important bit here :)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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