Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:49:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How long for -stable [ Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c ] Message-ID: <200010040349.VAA27923@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20001003192158.A14805@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> <85378.970625261@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001003192158.A14805@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> The idea of supporting 2.x fixes isn't fundamentally unsound either, > it's just that no-one cares enough to do the work. For what it's worth, I've got a couple of backported kernel fixes on my box (including at least one security fix) that are there because I am stuck on 2.2 due to hardware issues, as well as the fact that it simply 'works'. However, I didn't bother making the fix available because I felt it might give people the wrong impression. Just because *I* am willing to support a really old release such as FreeBSD 2, I still feel the users should be 'encouraged' to use newer releases. By not making those fixes available (which were in fact rather trivial to do), those folks who aren't capable of fixing the bugs will be more likely to upgrade their systems to a newer 'more supported' release. I think supporting older releases *really* needs to be done by a commercial entity (or at least folks who have a commercial stake in seeing it done), since the majority of developers are in it for the development fun, and product support is all but fun. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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