Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 19:48:59 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and onwards Message-ID: <200411051949.07010.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <418C0EED.1060301@freebsd.org> References: <418C0EED.1060301@freebsd.org>
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--nextPart2189393.b8WeqqOoLr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 05 November 2004 06:38 pm, Scott Long wrote: > All, > > FreeBSD 5.3 is about to be announced this weekend and will signal the > true kick-off of the 5-STABLE and 6-CURRENT series. We are very excited > about this, both because 5.3 is a good release, and because 6.0 will > give us a chance to, erm, redeem ourselves and our development process > =3D-) > <snip> > > There has been quite a bit of discussion about this over the past week > by the developer community. The proposal that I and Poul-Henning have > set forth is to stop gating releases, both major and minor, or features, > and instead gate them on a schedule that is both reasonable and timely. > New -STABLE branched will be made on a calendar-based time line, and > point releases on those branches will be made at regular intervals. We > are still debating the exact time line, but it will fall somewhere > between doing a new -STABLE branch every 12-18 months, and doing point > releases every 4-6 months. Won't branching -STABLE every 12-18 months will be too often? I'm thinking= =20 from the perspective of maintaining remote servers, the prospect of=20 updating across major versions. This would also depend on how long=20 various branch will stay supported and have security updates. As you have= =20 said there won't be a huge 4.x -> 5.x chasm for future releases, but with=20 an accellerated release schedule upgradeablity between branches=20 particularly doing remote upgrades safely will need to be a priority,=20 which is probably a good thing. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart2189393.b8WeqqOoLr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBjB+CxqA5ziudZT0RApwUAJ9gp1Kic7/GB3SXXvkXFpwq9X0fDgCfZa29 hpiVSslM9H43OJp0kAagE7k= =aCPn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2189393.b8WeqqOoLr--
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