Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 07:15:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Robroy Gregg <robroy@bigbuckingunicorn.com> To: Kristof Provost <kristof@sigsegv.be> Cc: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com> Subject: Re: A request for release engineering Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1805110708180.38383@beak.h.net> In-Reply-To: <DFED4A6E-BC93-4D62-AD86-A441BDB2BD8E@sigsegv.be> References: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com> <670715be-849c-47fc-72b4-42b81cf31c0a@qeng-ho.org> <DFED4A6E-BC93-4D62-AD86-A441BDB2BD8E@sigsegv.be>
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On Fri, 11 May 2018, Kristof Provost wrote: > On 11 May 2018, at 9:11, Arthur Chance wrote: >> 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? >> > FreeBSD 10.4 reaches end-of-life on October 31, 2018. At this point > I?d recommend an upgrade to 11.1 right now, to get to a supported > version and then an upgrade to 11.2 within three months of the release > of 11.2. I wonder how many other people are like me--planning to "float" from 10.3-RELEASE to 11.2-RELEASE on some computers, just to face the devil once instead of twice (the devil to which I refer's the one who's "in the details" every time I change anything on a server).
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