Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:51:28 -0700
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To:        Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, 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:  <D4FFD9ED-8694-4950-8317-D9359ECCFEE3@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <1212683649.90048.43.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
References:  <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846D849.2090005@FreeBSD.org>	<4846E14C.709@FreeBSD.org> <AC78CAC0-BA7C-4A20-9BEE-E7E37FD225E7@netconsonance.com> <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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?D4FFD9ED-8694-4950-8317-D9359ECCFEE3>