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Date:      Sat, 2 Jun 2007 12:33:57 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
Cc:        Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: release cycle
Message-ID:  <20070602163357.GA3471@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070602140244.0cf05a93@localhost>
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 02:02:44PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 29/05/07, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:17:57PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > > Agreed.  6.3-RELEASE would nominally be due around July but the lack
> > > > of any schedule on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ suggests that it will
> > > > be later than that.  The plans to start the 7.0-RELEASE cycle will also
> > > > impact this.
> > >
> > > At BSDCan, Ken Smith mentioned that 7.0 is due to be branched in July and
> > > released in Aug/Sep, with 6.3 quickly following (perhaps even overlapping
> > > so as to reuse the same ports freeze).
> > >
> > > The ports tree is not even close to stable enough to release right now.
> 
> > Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system
> > is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be
> > upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this
> > support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the
> > ports tree be supported on both?
> 
> I believe you misunderstood something. Where do you think Kris said that?

Yep, looks like he's confused again.  I hope it's not a terminal
condition.

Kris






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