From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 11 17:51:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705DA16A50F for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 17:51:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2929B43D48 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 17:51:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039FF1A4E05; Thu, 11 May 2006 10:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CAD7D51589; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:51:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 13:51:35 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jeff Rollin Message-ID: <20060511175135.GA71742@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4462FA0B.2090100@cty-net.ne.jp> <20060511150818.GB69548@xor.obsecurity.org> <8a0028260605110826h13211353rbe374ccc5f5e7ce4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8a0028260605110826h13211353rbe374ccc5f5e7ce4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Kouji Ito , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: when 5.5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 17:51:39 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step with new > ones, or is it just coincidence that it's happening this way this time? It was deliberate this time to avoid an extra ports freeze cycle, since that has very high cost and the benefit is really low since the intended audience for 5.5 is small and everyone who can do so will be much better off with the enormous benefits of 6. Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEY3mnWry0BWjoQKURAlggAKDly9jNOyHXIB1Pyp9Ay0uLHnnx3wCgthbA lEZeBO2l3AEH/nEGnVtosr0= =NCXy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--