EOL of Warty?

[John]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Daniel Robitaille">
> 
>>So when is the official end of life of Warty going to be?  18 months from
>>its release? Which makes it somewhere around April 20ish.  Or when Dapper
>>is officially released?
> 
> 
> Warty will hit EOL on April 20.


I just had an enormous argument about this on Fedora. I have a FC3 box. 
FC expired just before FC5's release, it's timed on when FC5 went into 
testing.

The result is a lot of sleepyheads are running unsupported software out 
of ignorance (I guess that would happen anyway).

The alternatives are to change configurations to point to different 
repos for a short while, or to upgrade to FC4 which has a strictly 
limited life.

I'm in the same position here. Wife's box runs Warty, she's allergic to 
changes so I do them infrequently. It's Internet connexion is via modem, 
updates are painful. The logical upgrade is to the latest release, the 
one promised for April.

Why not expire Warty once Dapper is out, instead of before?