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Date:      Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:31:42 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Chris D . Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, asmodai@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftpd bug in FreeBSD through at least 3.4 
Message-ID:  <200010022331.RAA15790@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:10:49 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001002162322.63580K-100000@fledge.watson.org> 
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001002162322.63580K-100000@fledge.watson.org>  

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In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001002162322.63580K-100000@fledge.watson.org> Robert Watson writes:
: I think it is too early to write off 3-STABLE as there is a huge install
: base for the branch, and many products based on it.  We don't even have a
: native Netscape build for 4-STABLE yet :-).  I think it is fine to assert
: that no new feature development is occuring there, however.

According to the security officer's long standing policy, we don't
commit to support the old stale branch after we've had two releases on
the new stable branch.  This doesn't mean that we prevent people from
contributing to it, just that we don't have resources to do so.

Warner


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