Fedora 8 将停止维护更新

仍在使用 Fedora 8 的同学们要注意了，根据 Fedora 的 N+2 发行维护规则， Fedora 8 将在 Fedora 10 发布一个月后停止维护更新。按照规则，EOL 应该是在圣诞节。为了避开节日期间， FESCo 已经决定在 2009 年 1 月 7 日停止对 Fedora 8 的支持，到时包括安全更新在内，对 Fedora 8 的一切更新维护工作都将停止，Koji 系统也不再接受任何新的 builds。在该日期或之后的短时间内，针对Fedora 8的bugs将关闭，因为它不再有更新了。

可参见：
FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-11-26

PS: 早先 The Fedora Legacy Project 会在官方宣布停止对老版本的支持之后，接手对老旧版本的维护工作，但是，这个项目现在已经终止。

原文见 Reminder of Fedora 8 end-of-life

As a reminder, Fedora has a policy of ending maintenance for a release
one month after the release of Fedora N+2 (i.e. Fedora 8 maintenance
would end one month after Fedora 10 was released). In this instance,
that date would be December 25.

At today’s FESCo meeting [1], it was decided to slightly deviate from
this policy. This decision was made in order to avoid having it
happen over the holidays, since according to policy, EOL would have
been on Christmas Day.

It was therefore decided to extend the end-of-life date of Fedora 8 to
Jan 7, 2009. After this time, there will be no more updates, including
security updates, issued for Fedora 8, and new builds will no longer
be allowed in koji, our buildsystem.

Also at or shortly after that time, all bugs open against Fedora 8
will be closed, since no more updates will be made.

Thanks!
-Jon

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg02014.html