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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:56:40 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?
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The suggestions are all good, but they require volunteers to volunteer
more of their time (for free, hence "volunteering") to maintain longer
branches; it requires more resources from volunteer mirrors (for free,
hence "volunteer") to store even more ports and CD-ROM ISO snapshots.

What we as a community need is more people standing up and taking
these jobs on. No-one will complain if you decide to tackle, say, the
ISO snapshots based on security releases. But you'd then have to do
all of the QA that goes into generating the release, building the
ports, doing some tests to make sure there aren't any glaring gotchas,
asking users to test out your pre-.0 release image (and they don't,
then complain when .0 didn't work), etc, etc.

So please, if you can step up, take ownership and start attacking
these issues, we'll embrace you with open arms. :)



Adrian



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