From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 19:59:46 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 A1C1E1065670 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:59:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 440AB8FC1A for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:59:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id m57K0ABj015321 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:00:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:59:30 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080607215930.000034e6@westmark> In-Reply-To: <37414AAF-C75A-4292-A174-2198BEF2A7DF@netconsonance.com> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> <48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org> <6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com> <484736E0.6090004@samsco.org> <4847D5F8.80605@FreeBSD.org> <37414AAF-C75A-4292-A174-2198BEF2A7DF@netconsonance.com> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: CLARITY 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 19:59:46 -0000 On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:53:10 -0700 Jo Rhett wrote: > Why does it make sense for FreeBSD to stop supporting a stable > version and force people to choose between two different unstable > versions? Is this really the right thing to do? NO, it's not. But you can't change that. The maintainers run the show. It's their time and their baby. And from one pov that's true. Users have to shut up if not contributing big time. I still think your questions are legitimate. You won't win the battle however. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++