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Date:      Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:13:04 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD9 and the sheer number of problem reports
Message-ID:  <4F4B4920.9030508@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <201202261630.57372.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
References:  <4F46847D.4010908@my.gd> <op.v95ejibz34t2sn@tech304> <4F49F375.5000002@hm.net.br> <201202261630.57372.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>

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On 2/26/12 10:30 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> No matter what effort you put into testing, you can never achieve the robustness of an older release. I still have 7.4 running on one. This can stay until next year.
> 
> So, why do you want to run the latest release on an important machine? You can, but you are not in a position to complain then.
> 
> Erich


Do you not see this as a *huge* problem ?
This means even fewer testers, again !



This weekend I replaced a server, moved it from 6.4-STABLE to
8.3-PRERELEASE.

Hell, as far as I'm concerned it could have stayed on 6.4-STABLE to be
honest, but I needed to replace the hardware which was getting old.



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