Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:15:57 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <201209151116.q8FBFvlt044104@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:45:06 CDT." <065A5AD8-E6F7-4634-9A20-23BA19FD915B@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > As for the schedule, as has been repeatedly stated, this change will > > only affect 10.x and later. If this proposal goes ahead, the first > > FreeBSD release to not have CVS in the base will be 10.0-RELEASE - > > which (IMHO) is unlikely to appear for another year. And 9.x will > > continue to include CVS in the base and should be supported for at > > least 2 years after 10.0-RELEASE comes out. Thus, anyone currently > > relying on the base CVS has at least 3 years to plan their transition. > > One thing the project has been really *BAD* at is broadcasting this information. They don't have 3 years to plan if the only record of this decision is in email mailing lists. We need to have an UPDATING_MAJOR to list the changes from the last major release that are user visible. Otherwise they will have only "minutes" of warning when they install 10.0. > > Warner Yes, more info/warning would be good, especially for those not [always] tracking lists &/or all releases. Maybe add a "road map" under http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ so people can see where FreeBSD is headed, exported in Ascii to src/SOMETHING (& with URL to newest version on web) ? PS if one goes to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ & clicks "Release Documentation" it breaks going to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/relnotes.html should be http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html No need to report, I just did with send-pr. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. Not: HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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