Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:32:28 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Removing documentation In-Reply-To: <56C2075A.5000409@marino.st> References: <56C1E579.30303@marino.st> <20160215165952.6199743BFA@shepard.synsport.net> <56C2075A.5000409@marino.st>
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> This makes no sense. Ports are not tied to base releases. > And you think lack of developer resources is an invalid reason? There was no mid-release issue with base as far as I know. The issue was with ports and by extension pkgng (and related -ngs). > You know good and well that people kick the can down the road FOREVER. > You could have announced it 3 years ahead and people would still scream > NOT YET! NOT YET! This would NEVER happen in Linux! The announcement <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-February/000077.html>; was dated Feb 3 2014, leaving all of 7 months until the planned deprecation. Even if you could make a case that pkgng was ready (it wasn't) 7 months is far less than the 2 calendar year and dozens of person-year cycles required by some infrastructure-critical production environments. It's even farther from the 7+ years that other FOSS distributions support their releases. > It's a business, right? You aren't talking about a shoestring hobby. There's no need to shoot the messenger here. I may be expressing an opinion but it is one that is shared by all of my colleagues: developers, administrators and managers alike. Roger
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