From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 22:56:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C41BE10656D7 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:56:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9227E8FC19 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dadv36 with SMTP id v36so4879827dad.13 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:56:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=y/QoP6tHr7sAp5pv8iHbehph572T1zP00p2TAl1+BGk=; b=KjkN0ngEpXoXw3aRt4V5PPCFRBlO6tuLrCe3Bq3rgurpaf3Bht8nctGDaECWzokGT/ nDa+k3aXdtXZDFSpZK3ig3KVYAZDdD2/giVNkr6bM6BG0i07Kly7GlXXvYhtAEaPTIKc UgEIlDe2sg1JxJOMYWPjVzj2Wn1+l+zf+edwNMlFJuCaF2dabvsgstsFJczr6UBc05ri HGRYn5IQtDUR+r0DakbM2MP0xN5kj42aWSRLhchlKr5h7jyVKsv4cOpmCG+sSYgxzszJ 5chs93ZPG5iJJXNCdfPcBGC4o6+MFyN4fAYoeOX3k9eXARvH6U5wD4bymN98p/GMrqC2 tBzQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.116.203 with SMTP id jy11mr24699204pbb.129.1339801000505; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.143.91.18 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:56:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FD9A0E2.9010101@my.gd> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:56:40 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: XO0c9LiS1mR6pjjWahHKVpTHwEE Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Mark Saad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:56:46 -0000 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