Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:48:08 -0700 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <D540B44F-32A3-4223-9013-0A5A9F900BF9@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <d763ac660806050434k207761bbxf6b1275942320deb@mail.gmail.com> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <20080604204325.GD4701@lava.net> <20080604234532.GA89656@k7.mavetju> <458FE12C-AE4D-48F9-8193-4663079CEEF8@netconsonance.com> <84EBEA5D3A1F47E79E8E12C4CF4D0314@multiplay.co.uk> <FB44670E-6F56-44BE-ADC4-23126420FAD8@netconsonance.com> <7B8FD1A1E7DA49DFA68252BF9C74AE6F@multiplay.co.uk> <1A050712-3D0F-4263-A9F8-EE4AD042486E@netconsonance.com> <d763ac660806050434k207761bbxf6b1275942320deb@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > If its of major concern for you, then allocate some man hours, grab > the /usr/src/sys diffs between RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE and > RELENG_6_3_0_RELEASE. > > The others on the list have stated over and over again that they > haven't seen any issues and would like to know precisely what they > are. While I appreciate their concern for the specifics, I think those should be addressed in another thread. This thread was meant to question the overall stability issues that pretty much anyone can view for themselves in the freebsd-questions/hardware/scsi mailing lists and queries in the open bug reports. > If stability is your main concern then you could throw some resources > at fixing 6.3 or throw some resources at backporting security fixes to > 6.2. I will apparently be backporting the security fixes myself until 6.4 ships. > I'm sure noone has an agenda to squish the FreeBSD version you're > using for any reason other than there aren't enough people > volunteering / being paid to work on back-porting security fixes. This is perhaps the real topic that needs to be addressed. Can we get some more details on the issues involved here? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
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