From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 11 14:22:01 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 32DE5FD71C6 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 14:22:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robroy@robroygregg.com) Received: from mail.robroygregg.com (173-13-147-189-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.13.147.189]) (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 95869703AF for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 14:22:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from robroy@robroygregg.com) Received: from beak.h.net (beak.h.net [192.168.32.10]) by mail.robroygregg.com (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 0d55bad0; Fri, 11 May 2018 07:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 07:15:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Robroy Gregg X-X-Sender: robroy@beak.h.net To: Kristof Provost cc: Arthur Chance , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Manish Jain Subject: Re: A request for release engineering In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com> <670715be-849c-47fc-72b4-42b81cf31c0a@qeng-ho.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 14:22:01 -0000 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).