Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:17:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: Doug@gorean.org (Doug Barton), ache@FreeBSD.org (Andrey A. Chernov), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: backporting to 3.5 Message-ID: <200006291717.KAA99314@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <16419.962247023@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 28, 2000 07:50:23 pm"
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> > > Is there going to be a policy regarding what to backport to 3.5? > > My personal opinion is that if we backport too much we reduce the > > users' motivation to move to ... > > Whatever people wish to back-port to it, within reason. Your personal > opinion aside, we don't engage in social engineering around here by > holding back fixes in attempt to force users to switch. There are > some large commercial sites which only recently stopped using 2.2.8 > and not everyone is or needs to be a revision-bumping junkie for > FreeBSD. As to discouraging developers by doing so, I don't see that > at all. Only developers who actively WANT to commit to the -stable > branches do so. And to reinforce what Jordan just said, not less than 2 hours ago one of our clients, with a global installed based of systems, made this query of us: > Where would we be able to obtain Install CD's of 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8? > Is this even possible? I don't think FreeBSD.org keeps the archived .iso > images around that long. I've not been able to find them on the site > anyway. Is it possible that you might have images that we could get over > the net somehow? They have systems running all of those releases... I sent them to WC to see if they can order them before we go pumping this data accross the net. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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