Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:33:55 +0800 From: "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Chris Marlatt" <cmarlatt@rxsec.com> Cc: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <d763ac660806050833s645001eag8d78c3121d8ae425@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48480473.3010009@rxsec.com> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <4846E14C.709@FreeBSD.org> <AC78CAC0-BA7C-4A20-9BEE-E7E37FD225E7@netconsonance.com> <48472CCF.8080101@FreeBSD.org> <4847EF62.1070709@rxsec.com> <4847F814.10409@FreeBSD.org> <4847FB1D.1050400@rxsec.com> <4847FFDE.8000209@FreeBSD.org> <48480473.3010009@rxsec.com>
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2008/6/5 Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com>: > The option provided seems like a fairly good compromise to both interests. > Pick 6.3 (or anything the release team wishes) to support for a longer > period of time. Keep all other releases to 12 month support and continue > doing what I believe is some fairly incredible work. I really don't see the > downside to it. If anything it should reduce the work load for the team and > let them focus on making considerable progress. Especially considering Ken > Smith's recent post regarding future release schedules. Please remember that: * the people generally pushing changes back down into RELENG_6 are doing so to (hopefully) fix bugs that they see in their production environments; * So the project is (in theory) being driven by people who have real needs and don't mind sharing; so * If you'd like to see this happen then please take charge and offer to trial it. :) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org
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