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On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> The OP stated "argh argh sky is falling with 6.3!" but hasn't yet
> listed PRs which indicate this to be happening.
> He's offered hardware in a week or two - which is great! - but what
> irks the developers is the large amount of noise and absolutely no
> useful information. Anyone can say "its broken!"..


Adrian, your other comments are smart and valid.  Why is this kind of  
hyperbole necessary?

I never said anything tragic or emergency or anything like that.  I  
questioned the practicality of having a single supported release with  
significant known bugs in it.

It will take pretty much all the time I spend supporting FreeBSD os  
and applications away to focus entirely on backporting security  
patches back to 6.2.   I know of several other organizations facing  
the same problem.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness