From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 14:22:50 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 5B3B5106569B for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [91.103.162.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11FB18FC1C for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA63D19E02D; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:22:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C4B9019E027; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:22:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48DB9ED4.408@quip.cz> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:23:16 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: cz, cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jo Rhett References: <40C58F46-D705-4BE0-8AE5-17D901EE381A@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <40C58F46-D705-4BE0-8AE5-17D901EE381A@netconsonance.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable Stable 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: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:22:50 -0000 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". [...snip...] > > Note2: This new policy would not change the support period for 6.4 if > it is the final release, but it does completely resolve the need to > "guess" whether or not it will be the final release. > > The notable change that I believe will encourage business participation > in the testing/evaluation process is that 6.4 is guaranteed to be > supported either 24 months, or at least 6 months past the release date > of 6.5. (recent history suggests this would be 15-19 months). This > encourages businesses to test and evaluate 6.4 NOW, rather than waiting > until a decision about the support policy is made. > > Repeat from the top: nobody is demanding anything. I think this policy > would make a lot more sense, and would promote forward movement. Feel > free to correct me if we overlooked anything. Thanks. I read the whole thread about releases schedule and I second your proposed changes. It makes things clear to me and I'll be happy if this concept will be accepted by FreeBSD team. Miroslav Lachman