Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 10:58:08 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Eol's? Message-ID: <20040426085808.GC29998@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040424143310.04326bb0@imap.sfu.ca> References: <freemail.20040324150019.24613@fm8.freemail.hu> <20040424132233.GA29518@xor.obsecurity.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040424143310.04326bb0@imap.sfu.ca>
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# colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk / 2004-04-24 14:39:57 +0100:
> At 14:22 24/04/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >4.8 passed its expiry date and was extended. 4.9 will probably be
> >extended at a later date too.
>
> Looks like Kris got a bit confused here. :-)
>
> The idea behind the extended support branches is that *selected*
> releases will be supported for at least 24 months; this allows us to
> offer extended support to people who can't upgrade on a regular basis,
> while keeping the number of supported branches to a manageable level.
> We haven't yet decided which future branches will qualify for
> extended support, but it is quite unlikely that this set would include
> FreeBSD 4.9.
How are the extended-support branches chosen?
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