From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 19:41:41 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 9A8401065677 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0988FC1C for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:41:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from 4.151.178.10.in-addr.arpa (m420e36d0.tmodns.net [208.54.14.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m57JfPm3059627; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.049 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.049 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=-0.128, TVD_RCVD_IP=1.617] From: Jo Rhett To: Steven Hartland In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com><48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org><6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com><200806050248.59229.max@love2party.net> Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:41:18 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Cc: Max Laier , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 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: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:41:41 -0000 On Jun 5, 2008, at 2:45 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: > You are still fail to take to the time to even tell people what these > bugs are, no ones a mind reader! > > People are trying to help you here but all I'm hearing is a child like > "It doesn't work fix it", with no willingness to even explain what it > is or provide resources to test if someone found the time to > investigate > your issues. > Given this I don't see how you can expect these so called issues to > ever get fixed. I think you are misunderstanding the point at hand. I'm not trying to address specific issues. (I'd be happy to in another thread next week). This thread was created to address the overall well-documented list of bugs in 6.3, which is the *only* supported stable version of the operating system. (7.0 is even less stable) The most stable (by numbers of bugs and numbers of reported problems) is 6.2. I see no valid reasoning that can be backed up by numbers as to why 6.2 should be EoL. That's the point I'm addressing. The specific bugs that affect us are not necessarily relevant to the overall stability. And anyone can do the same searches on the bug list to confirm these numbers for themselves. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness