Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:52:06 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> To: Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206121545560.19012@kozubik.com> In-Reply-To: <CAK6u07XqvvuQvXF=SN58OinY6Mo-8Z=mtU4vK=V7HAwCUv2Ocw@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206111537310.19012@kozubik.com> <20120612011645.GA7807@lonesome.com> <20120612151746.GA33004@DataIX.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206121120560.19012@kozubik.com> <CAK6u07XqvvuQvXF=SN58OinY6Mo-8Z=mtU4vK=V7HAwCUv2Ocw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Matt, On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Matt Olander wrote: > So, we've (iXsystems, PC-BSD) been kicking around the idea of a Long > Term Supported version of "PC-BSD Server", which is really FreeBSD > with some PC-BSD cli tools and perhaps maintaining our own binary > update server. While we were thinking of doing this with 9.1, we can > consider 8.x. I'll speak with Kris Moore and the rest of the team and > find out what it will take. > > We've hired a contract release engineer with this task in mind but > you're right, most of the work will be in backporting. I like the idea > of coming up with a number it would take and a plan to do it. We're > not the only people with the problem, obviously. As a last resort, I would be interested in this, but I'm more interested in changing the culture of FreeBSD releases and long-term support in general. I think that: a) there are a lot more people out there, that we never hear from, that have these same problems, and another "4.x style" release would really help them. b) there are a lot of people out there that could be drawn into the FreeBSD ecosystem if another "4.x style" release existed. I would much rather donate $10k to a $100k kickstarter and have this be "official" than set aside $10k privately for unofficial maintenance, or a "fork".
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