From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 20:51:46 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 EF165106566B; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:51:46 +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 E06268FC0C; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:51:46 +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 m57KpYdD061323; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:51:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.027 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.027 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=-0.150, TVD_RCVD_IP=1.617] Message-Id: From: Jo Rhett To: Ken Smith In-Reply-To: <1212683649.90048.43.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> 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 13:51:28 -0700 References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org> <4846E14C.709@FreeBSD.org> <48472CCF.8080101@FreeBSD.org> <4847EF62.1070709@rxsec.com> <4847F814.10409@FreeBSD.org> <4847FB1D.1050400@rxsec.com> <4847FFDE.8000209@FreeBSD.org> <1212683649.90048.43.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Cc: Kris Kennaway , Doug Barton , FreeBSD Stable , Chris Marlatt 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 20:51:47 -0000 On Jun 5, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Ken Smith wrote: > As for re-defining extended support to mean 4 or 5 years instead of > just > two it's not clear us doing that (except for anomolies like 4.11) is > really in your best interests. :-) 2 years would be perfectly fine in my mind. I'd love to see 2 years of support for 6.2-RELEASE. 6.2 was (and *is* AFAIK) the most stable release of FreeBSD since 4.11 and it came out the door with less than 12 months of support intended. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness