From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 18:57:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE6184C for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:57:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com (mail-we0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3863364F for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id z53so526128wey.37 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:57:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=yNUhukKoDTJbd9TtLSBUEJIMGNf7OWhXTPiZqSP/Q7Q=; b=s2evQ/8RX4L/AS61ty+hXoPYVeeoPbs4JpX8vIFhF876YYPLxF+LcrcxHExznIickl 0ShXvPfcIqiKsiuz22WIygnd8A1YNGMJ39YELuq5yPERtadtp6SE3jVFKLKHVpy9vxsz EKkcALCVWMQij3sRejmHZCfsO1RBjeog+ZyYcNfPfZX3kgPq2QQ+SNBGCPkQm0ygQHY3 IQGSB77PjKtvzjNbXEcliK2buY0h9hVw9oc9EkfbJKfUuGAkC8Ol8IbiEl/jbGXPXr5H 74VJ8i/a+Ap86Ye0bJ9Irv3QOwWoUCiBoS3BQHriS5cU726PS0lB0cn7sfiBoaF76cjb P2vg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.171.74 with SMTP id as10mr5217179wjc.0.1364583430209; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.108.130 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:57:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130329180646.GL42080@manor.msen.com> References: <20130328212955.GJ42080@manor.msen.com> <20130328231043.GA3666@ethic.thought.org> <20130329180646.GL42080@manor.msen.com> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:57:10 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: _3ARAgW6ECMWXFYJGbsrQYRfhcM Message-ID: Subject: Re: Seeking an extended-support O/S similar to FreeBSD From: Adrian Chadd To: FreeBSD Hackers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:57:11 -0000 Again, no-one is going to really complain if vendors/users decide to step up and run longer supported branches. I personally encourage that. I _encourage_ that people who are interested in keeping 6.x and earlier alive (and 7.x soon, and 8.x less soon) to jump in and submit patches to backport fixes and whatnot. The problem isn't that we don't want to - it's that we just don't have the collective time and energy to backport things to branches we're not using. If you're a company with a heavy investment in older branches, please consider what I've said. Participate in FreeBSD development and offer to support branches for longer. But please don't complain to a bunch of volunteers who look after stuff in their spare time, or companies who fund work for FreeBSD branches that they're using. The 'project' does what its users and developers contribute to. Adrian