Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:33:01 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fast rate of major FreeBSD releases to STABLE Message-ID: <20070517163301.GA7602@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0705170830g46487cc7occc8a51b82a9118b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:30:50PM +0100, Chris wrote: > The recent ports freeze has also concerned me, this is the longest > ports freeze I have witnessed since I started using FreeBSD years ago > and its for a desktop element of the os, does it matter if servers > running FreeBSD have to remain on vulnerable versions of ports as a > result of this? I'll leave the src release discussion for others, and just remark that this claim is entirely false: every release cycle has had a longer ports freeze than this one, with the same consequences. We don't take freezes lightly, and the alternative is to import a bunch of incompletely tested changes that will cause untold chaos for our users. I'm sure you wouldn't advocate that. Kris (for portmgr)home | help
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