From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 11 07:12:04 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 4245AFC3904 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 07:12:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DB55F6B725 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 07:12:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.qeng-ho.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCE7106AF; Fri, 11 May 2018 08:11:55 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: A request for release engineering To: Manish Jain , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" References: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <670715be-849c-47fc-72b4-42b81cf31c0a@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 08:11:55 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB 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 07:12:04 -0000 On 10/05/2018 19:15, Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I have no idea whether this is the right list to make this request to. > But I could not find any other list that would definitely be better suited. > > I noticed when trying to build a port under my 10.3 box that support for > 10.3 has now expired. I have no problems with that - I will install 12 > afresh when it becomes available later this year. > > 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 ? > The FreeBSD support model was announced over three years ago: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html In particular - Each new release from the stable/X branch deprecates the previous release on the branch, providing a three-month window within which consumers are urged to upgrade to the latest release. During this three-month window, Security Advisories and Errata Notices will still be issued for the previous release, as necessary. Why not simply update to 10.4? -- An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).