From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 14:40:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3761416A4A7 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:40:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF05413C467 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:40:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from bremerhaven.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.10]) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GxOkp-0005wz-Qn; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:18:39 +0100 Message-ID: <458A97BF.1090503@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:18:39 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060910 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Percival References: <000801c723bb$efc2b540$260ba8c0@wii.wintecind.com> <458A2B14.5070009@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <458A2B14.5070009@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Smith Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support 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, 21 Dec 2006 14:40:22 -0000 Colin Percival wrote: > John Smith wrote: >> Support for FreeBSD 4.11 is going to end sometime in late January. >> Originally, FreeBSD 6.2 was supposed to be released back in October. This >> would have given everyone about 3 months to stress test everything and >> migrate all their boxes from 4.11 direct to 6.2. > > You've had three months to stress test 6.2-BETA1, 6.2-BETA2, 6.2-BETA3, and > 6.2-RC1. We release these for a reason, you know. > >> Now it is near the end of >> December, and FreeBSD 6.2 RC2 has yet to be seen anywhere. Chances are that >> FreeBSD 6.2 Release will come out earliest mid-January. This does not give >> much time for people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD release. I think it >> would be fair if support is extended for a few more months especially since >> 6.2 is so late in coming. > > Your opinion has been noted. > > Colin Percival I have to second the OP's opinion. :-) I think it is important to be able to stress test the *final* release before installing on production machines. There is little use in stress testing BETAs and then install a broken RELEASE. This happened with 6.1-RELEASE where the nfs server was suddenly unusable on amd64. Regards,