Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:27:19 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ? Message-ID: <201206131327.19688.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=xPcMYo_eXAHOkVraHTZKfbExPLsrkZbGRDqhHHaKYuA@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206111537310.19012@kozubik.com> <201206130853.32687.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=xPcMYo_eXAHOkVraHTZKfbExPLsrkZbGRDqhHHaKYuA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:52:28 am Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 13 June 2012 05:53, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> 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. > > Right, but I don't think the freebsd project would really mind or > change much if more people came on board to handle legacy releases and > support them. > > If you're a company that uses FreeBSD stable releases, please consider > contributing engineering resources and/or donations to the Foundation > to improve the support of said stable releases. :) No, that doesn't actually work. Having additional support on a stable branch requires someone able to 1) commit changes to stable branches and 2) be able to cut newer releases from said branches (i.e. doing the work of re@). You cannot get that as an outside entity. It requires buy-in from the Project itself. -- John Baldwin
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