Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 08:08:50 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A request for release engineering Message-ID: <20180511080850.0e81db3461e08f5860e0e8b7@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com> References: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com>
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On Thu, 10 May 2018 23:45:02 +0530 Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com> wrote: > But since installing afresh demands a whole effort, I request that > FreeBSD reduce its new releases to one per year, while the support > period is increased to 3 years per release. > > Does this sound like a good request to others too ? To be completely honest I would prefer that the development and release engineering teams run at a cadence that suits them (which AFAIK they do). I've never needed to re-install just to move up a major version bump, I do wipe the packages and re-install them but that's not too painful. I usually jump versions around the n.1 release upgrading in reverse order of importance since it's a home setup with no staging environment to test in. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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