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Date:      Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:35:34 -0700
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com>
Subject:   Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3
Message-ID:  <C77EE291-D1C9-40B6-902E-45281D849273@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <d763ac660806050839y40674b11hdbc54ddbd262bf1c@mail.gmail.com>
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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





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