Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:52:03 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Schedule for releases Message-ID: <201012220852.oBM8q2Qi039123@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <DB4D8AC7-25D6-4901-BBF9-77BEB956840B@cederstrand.dk>
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Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> wrote: > Den 21/12/2010 kl. 23.28 skrev Robert Watson: > > Looking at 7.x, I'm struck by how much it has slowed down. > > There's a significant user community, but not a significant > > developer community. > > Which pretty much sums up a dilemma in the development of > FreeBSD, I think. Developers want users to try out their new > shiny stuff, but users don't want to spend time upgrading. For me, personally, one significant problem is that I don't have the resources to easily run several versions of FreeBSD at home. I have a stable/8 installation, but I can't easily install another one (i.e. stable/7) at the same time, which would be required for testing and support. Well, I could set up a dual-boot environment somehow with a second disk, but that's time-consuming and annoying. I also have to confess that my motivation to spend time supporting an "old" branch is somewhat low because I don't use that branch myself anymore for some time already. Probably quite a few developers are in a similar situation, I guess. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "I invented Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous." -- David Bradley, original IBM PC design team
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