Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:22:10 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches Message-ID: <42978172.6060200@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <4297316B.3060801@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> <20050527102221.X12475@zoraida.natserv.net> <4297316B.3060801@samsco.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Scott Long wrote: > Yeah, and what I'm trying to do is smooth the bumps for the long term. > The 4.x->5.x transition was simply a gigantic mess for users, and it was > largely a function of it being 4+ years in the making. <rant>It still _is_ a gigantic mess. My hosted 5.3-stable server just crapped itself for the second time this year, for no apparent reason. I suggest reestablishing 4.x as the "production" tree and continuing to maintain it for a while, including making releases, and regressing 5.x to what it is and probably will be for quite a while: "experimental".</rant> mkb.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42978172.6060200>