Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:01:13 +0200 From: Uzi Klein <uzi@bmby.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? Message-ID: <42639379.4010206@bmby.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417202031.0490ad98@localhost> <4263280B.3010601@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:22 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote: > > >>Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the >>salaries of the release engineering team for a few months, > > > The same way they're being paid for their work on other > releases? ;-) > ouch! > >>Eh? If the important part is the security fixes, why not just >>install 4.11 and then apply the security fixes? > That's what we usually do whenever there's a security fix... I didn't see a new release pops up for after each security fix. > > That's fine for awhile, but there will soon be enough > that this will be painful. And it may be a good idea to > produce a release containing other code that's been backported > from 5.x and 6.x. Sounds interesting, but, while you were asking about SMP, AMD64 etc. that's not backporting, That's kernel handling AFAIK. > > --Brett Glass > -- Uzi Klein B.M.B.Y Software Systems LTD. http://www.bmby.com
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