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Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?
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On 13 June 2012 21:26, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 08:50:24AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> The only way that this would really work is if there were dedicated
>> sustaining engineers working on actively backporting code, testing it,
>> committing it, etc.
>
> I'm going to agree with Garrett here. =A0IMHO we've reached (or surpassed=
)
> the limit of what is reasonable to ask volunteers to commit their spare
> time to. =A0This is doubly true when we have more than one "stable" branc=
h.

I totally concur.




Adrian