Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:08:08 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ? Message-ID: <20120612230808.GA68402@jerrymc.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206121120560.19012@kozubik.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>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:40:48AM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > >>>I am looking at the upcoming release schedule, and I only see 9.1 > >>>listed - can anyone confirm or deny 8.4 ? > >> > >>Although I am not on re@, AFAIK the only schedule that is on the table > >>is the one for 9.1. > >> > > > >Release 8.3 (April 2012) has it really been 6 months yet! > > > We (rsync.net) are deploying our new ZFS based platform on FreeBSD. This > is a platform that needs to be live in just a few weeks.[1] > > We only run release software. Further, I don't think anyone will fault us > for steering clear of 9.0-RELEASE. 9.1 is probably four months away. > > So our choices are 8, which has no roadmap, and 9 which doesn't exist. Well, 8.3 is working fine for me. It is being well maintained. You sound like the people who can't decide to get something because a new version is going to come out sometime before they die. ////jerry > > On the one hand, we've made this choice before, when we invested hundreds > of thousands of dollars into equipment, code, training, etc. for 6.4. > We've successfully amortized this investment over the past 4-5 years, but > not without a lot of pain. The past 24 months has been a lot of custom > work, backporting drivers, etc. We don't want to repeat this. > > On the other hand, we're not going to debut a new platform, to customers > all over the world, on 9.0. > > So ... how about a kickstarter, since that's all the rage ? What would a > reasonable total be, donated to the FreeBSD foundation, that would ensure > the maintenance of the 8.x branch for another 3 years (say, Dec 31, 2015) > and out to (to pick an arbitrary number) 8.10 ? > > Just a thought ... > > > [1] After years of evaluation and testing, spanning 6.x - 8.x. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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