Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:44:31 +0200 From: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Wesley Shields <wxs@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>, Nathan Way <nathan@datanode.com> Subject: Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule... Message-ID: <A74BABF7-F6E8-462B-8ED0-EC36544AB702@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <15F15FD1-3C53-4018-8792-BC63289DC4C2@netconsonance.com> References: <1219409496.10487.22.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <593618A3-56DA-4891-A4A0-690E9A9C5B32@netconsonance.com> <F17BE4F1F989BB4A81EB94C36712A9736F3493@dni-mail.datanode.com> <20080904133604.GB1188@atarininja.org> <CB36FE28-D125-4C22-B5DE-1001515DD8A6@netconsonance.com> <47d0403c0809051319r3c82f87bhdb15ce5b0167987a@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809061159410.28840@fledge.watson.org> <2742CAB1-8FF2-425D-A3B6-0658D7DB8F4D@netconsonance.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809162043380.64176@fledge.watson.org> <0C2C7E9B-61E3-4720-B76F-4745A3C963DA@netconsonance.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809180022580.13100@fledge.watson.org> <658B8861-1E78-4767-8D3D-8B79CC0BD45F@netconsonance.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0809181935540.16464@fledge.watson.org> <15F15FD1-3C53-4018-8792-BC63289DC4C2@netconsonance.com>
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On Sep 18, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Robert Watson wrote: >> Let's consider three more productive avenues by which you can >> offer assistance with the problem of how to increase branch >> support lifetimes: >> >> (1) Become a contributor to the community by developing and >> maintaining >> patches against unsupported branches, especially against older >> releases >> such as 4.x and 5.x where the branches are open for commits but >> have >> fallen out of support status. I can't promise the results will > > We have no 4.x or 5.x systems nor do we have any interest in > maintaining those. So perhaps a good idea, but not something I can > help with. > > I *did* offer to work on maintenance for 6.2, but was told it would > be rejected by the developers. Would I extend effort to do exactly > what I am talking about -- extending the support lifetime for very > recent releases? Absolutely. If its in a form useful for the > community as a whole. Are you seriously insisting that a minor release should be supported for more than a year? I think that's pretty exceptional already for any piece of software, and yet you want to extend that? I don't know what your line of work demands, but maybe you're not as constrained as you think you are? The support lifetime of FreeBSD 6 (the major release) is estimated to be up to somewhere in 2010, according to the release information, which seems to satisfy your needs. To me this is a rhetorical question only, I have no way to apply any answers I get to these questions. I'm not involved in the FreeBSD project or in your line of work, I'm just a humble user and supporter. Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. !DSPAM:74,48d2afa510139919116692!
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