From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 10:46:41 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 10:46:40 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtvxch05.veritas.com (goldengate-bridge.veritas.com [63.197.92.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CCE37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:46:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by mtvxch05.veritas.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:46:30 -0800 Message-ID: From: Eric Harrison To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: FreeBSD Supported Releases Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:46:23 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm a product manager doing some research and wondering if there is a policy or guideline that the FreeBDS board of directors/Community uses to gauge release lifecycles. For example, how long will "community" energy be spent to support older previous releases, over new. Basically how long will a prior version be "supported". While this is a clear concept in commercial software firms, don't yet understand how this works with FreeBSD and community maintained OS. What I'm trying to ultimately decide is how long we need to provide support for prior FreeBSD releases. Thanks for your consideration, Best regards, Eric Harrison -Product Manager, NetBackup VERITAS Software, Inc. Office: (650) 318-4766 Mobile: (831) 234-7765 mailto:eric.harrison@veritas.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message