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At 10:03 24/08/2003 -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:45:50AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> >   Is there any reason why releases have EoL dates after only 12
> > months?
>
>They are supported by unpaid volunteers who have a limit to the amount
>of free time they can donate to the project.

   Either I'm missing your point, or you're missing my point.  There are 
five release branches now which are "not officially supported", but I have 
yet to see any circumstance where they have, in fact, not been 
supported.  If those branches were not being supported because people were 
too busy to support them, I'd understand perfectly; but as far as I can 
see, those branches *are* being supported.

Colin Percival