Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:28:24 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <g29478$6k8$1@ger.gmane.org> 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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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4113E53FE3D235335C111B6D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris Marlatt wrote: > The option provided seems like a fairly good compromise to both > interests. Pick 6.3 (or anything the release team wishes) to support fo= r > a longer period of time. Keep all other releases to 12 month support an= d > 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 loa= d > for the team and let them focus on making considerable progress. > Especially considering Ken Smith's recent post regarding future release= > schedules. This is already being done: 6.1 was a "long term support" release. The topic comes about pretty often. I think it's because people are still impressed / spoiled by 4.x and wish they had a stable operating system that's supported for 6+ years (like 4.x had been). I even heard commercial / embedded companies saying they would use FreeBSD if only they had a 5+ years run off a branch (which is comparable to what Debian has, if you allow 3.0 and 3.1 to be "similar enough"). But all is not so bad: consider for example 7.x: 7.0 was released 2008/02, and from Ken's schedule the last release, 7.4 will be released 2009/12, with probable support for maybe 1-2 more years which makes the whole 7.x generation of the OS officialy supported for 3, maybe 4 years, which is a lot in fast technology-changing world. I know long term support is not doable with the resources the project currently has, but I've been toying with the idea that maybe there's an opportunity for commercial development here - a company that would backport security fixes and important driver fixes for ($$$ * (N-YEAR_OF_LAST_RELEASE)) more years or something. --------------enig4113E53FE3D235335C111B6D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFISBQoldnAQVacBcgRAmiqAKD79x2X18iqODayryC/6Y6JqD9gqACgzL/w mSzEypEMLTW2WHAA9FN/hNE= =FKeZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4113E53FE3D235335C111B6D--
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