From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 11 07:09:14 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3049FC365B for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 07:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) Received: from bca5.email-od.com (bca5.email-od.com [207.246.239.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 764016AA93 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 07:09:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.10.freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1526022556; x=1528614556; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=VXR7gjdVNd8M3GKo5ql1JneAl/0diy7Brcw7IfcElFI=; b=F7q1yeIn7CLsLhX6ZC0xPP9UsLk5P+MDheWYrdilqVMK6ZHhGIhxbvP/17MsmPls1LYtZQr//LuT+iU2YhaRfUhPp3GjjWNVFq7QHtFDUBK2nWjWRmA3Xu1G7gNF1g6cUVeDHRdFz9lMtuFty/9Fyd1lP2CsfWrwRwoSukY4dII= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi45YTAwMDAwMDBlNGNlYS5mcmVlYnNkLXF1ZXN0aW9ucz1mcmVlYnNkLm9yZw== Received: from r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com (r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.179.12]) by bca2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 11 May 2018 03:09:03 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [89.127.62.20]) by r2.sg.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Fri, 11 May 2018 03:08:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.90_1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1fH2Ac-000Cqt-Mp; Fri, 11 May 2018 07:08:50 +0000 Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 08:08:50 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Manish Jain Cc: "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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.1) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 07:09:14 -0000 On Thu, 10 May 2018 23:45:02 +0530 Manish Jain 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