Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:53:32 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com> Subject: Re: Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ? Message-ID: <201206130853.32687.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmomw7Tnce2Gyo443smS_%2BZQ4jLhWUqxhuZ2m-F%2Bxi81=Nw@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206111537310.19012@kozubik.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206121545560.19012@kozubik.com> <CAJ-Vmomw7Tnce2Gyo443smS_%2BZQ4jLhWUqxhuZ2m-F%2Bxi81=Nw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:01:00 pm Adrian Chadd wrote: > hi, > > You don't need to change the FreeBSD culture. We'd love to do an 8.4 > release. And an 8.5 release, and 8.6 release, etc. The problem is one > of resources and time, not of culture/desire. I disagree. The pace of X.0 releases is a deliberate choice FreeBSD has made and directly impacts the number of "live" branches in existence. Given our developer base, we can't really support 3 branches concurrently (head + 2 stable like we have now with head, 9, and 8). Having longer lived stable branches requires either increasing resources to support exising releases longer, or slowing the pace of X.0 releases (but more aggressively merging things from HEAD back). The latter case, especially, is part of the culture and would be a choice we as a Project would have to make. -- John Baldwin
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