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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: backporting to 3.5
In-Reply-To: <16419.962247023@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 28, 2000 07:50:23 pm"
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:17:42 -0700 (PDT)
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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


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