From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 00:01:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B13106567C; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:01:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACA08FC13; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:01:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from [172.16.12.8] (covad-jrhett.meer.net [209.157.140.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8O01aud072565; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.393 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.393 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=-0.953] Message-Id: From: Jo Rhett To: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <48D97F9C.3050309@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:01:36 -0700 References: <40C58F46-D705-4BE0-8AE5-17D901EE381A@netconsonance.com> <20080924093252.02048@caamora.com.au> <48D97F9C.3050309@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: freebsd-stable Stable , jonathan michaels , Robert Watson , "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:01:49 -0000 On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > jonathan michaels wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: >>> Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with >>> the following suggestions to change the support policy. >>> Obviously, this is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's >>> obviously open to discussion and there's nobody demanding >>> anything here. It just seems "better". > > Thanks for the suggestions, but it might have helped to avoid > confusion > if you had contacted the FreeBSD security team privately before > announcing > your ideas here... I'm sorry, I'm confused. This spawned from an ongoing conversation on this list. Rather than have the dialog spin around, I figured it would be better to post a specific example of what I thought. > No it hasn't. The FreeBSD Security team hasn't agreed to anything > yet. Yes, absolutely to that. As posted this is my own idea, adjusted some based on input from various others, none of whom are on the freebsd security team. I'd love to hear what the freebsd security team thinks. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness