Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:25:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches Message-ID: <20050527102221.X12475@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <42969D28.6070306@samsco.org> References: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> <42937D06.1070309@samsco.org> <20050526235805.N5798@zoraida.natserv.net> <42969D28.6070306@samsco.org>
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On Thu, 26 May 2005, Scott Long wrote: >> Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years? > > Yes. This will allow us to pace our major development projects much > better than we have in the past. Someone mentioned 5.X will be supported till 2007 (or at least that's the plan). So will, in average, branches be supported 2 years after a new one takes over? Sounds like a good strategy for most shops. I can imagine that for a big shop with lots of machines it may be a bit agressive, but I am not one of them. :-).. besides big shops likely have developed entire systems around how to deploy the OS to many machines.
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