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Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,
	Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com>
Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?
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On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:01:00 pm Adrian Chadd wrote:
> hi,
> 
> You don't need to change the FreeBSD culture. We'd love to do an 8.4
> release. And an 8.5 release, and 8.6 release, etc. The problem is one
> of resources and time, not of culture/desire.

I disagree.  The pace of X.0 releases is a deliberate choice FreeBSD
has made and directly impacts the number of "live" branches in existence.  
Given our developer base, we can't really support 3 branches concurrently 
(head + 2 stable like we have now with head, 9, and 8).  Having longer lived 
stable branches requires either increasing resources to support exising 
releases longer, or slowing the pace of X.0 releases (but more aggressively 
merging things from HEAD back).  The latter case, especially, is part of
the culture and would be a choice we as a Project would have to make.

-- 
John Baldwin