platform support plans (and dropping rh80,fc1)

Due to the need to support new releases, and even platforms (ie, amd64), 
time(*)/space constraints require us to retire support for some older 
releases.   So, I regret to announce that kde-redhat will no longer be 
producing new packages for the rh80 and fc1 platforms.  We'll keep the 
existing packages  around for at least another 2-3 months, afterwhich, 
they will be deleted/removed.

Our near-term expectations are to support at least the 2 most recent 
Fedora Core and RedHat Enterprise releases on i386.  My own department 
still has a large deployment of rh90 boxes and a few rh73 servers, so I 
have a personal incentive to continue supporting these too (otherwise, 
we'd probably end up dropping these in the not-too-distant future too). 
Pending acquiring a x64 box (or at least dependable build environment), 
I plan on adding FC/EL support on these as well.

Support for additinal platforms (and possibly dropped ones) could also 
come from overdue/unattended-to plans to integrate with rpmforge.net 
and/or ATrpms (provided that they or someone else can provide the build 
environment and repository space).

Comments (directed to the kde-redhat-users list please) are welcome.

-- Rex

(*) Coupled with the fact that my uber-build-box(**) recently died, and so 
did all the installed build environments... so I'm having to rebuild 
things from scratch and to be fully backed up this time! (-:.

(**) it had 7 OS's installed (not surprisingly rh73, rh80, rh90, fc1, 
fc2, rhel3, and WinXP)


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