From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 16:28:40 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 26A0F1065678 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48B68FC29 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:28:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K4IKJ-0003iM-Nv for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:28:35 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:28:35 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:28:35 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:28:24 +0200 Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <4846E14C.709@FreeBSD.org> <48472CCF.8080101@FreeBSD.org> <4847EF62.1070709@rxsec.com> <4847F814.10409@FreeBSD.org> <4847FB1D.1050400@rxsec.com> <4847FFDE.8000209@FreeBSD.org> <48480473.3010009@rxsec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4113E53FE3D235335C111B6D" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) In-Reply-To: <48480473.3010009@rxsec.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 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: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:28:40 -0000 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--