Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:00:08 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <20080608000008.00004a91@westmark> In-Reply-To: <52E265BB-BBB1-439D-B375-D6C6AA04697C@netconsonance.com> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org> <6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com> <200806050248.59229.max@love2party.net> <B9B83C12-7130-490D-A4BE-0469711B24DC@netconsonance.com> <20080605083907.GD1028@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <902E9703E6E50776A17E9F92@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20080605220244.GP1028@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <34E9F0D46D7B9F45EDA38F4C@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <48488D1A.9070105@kutulu.org> <52E265BB-BBB1-439D-B375-D6C6AA04697C@netconsonance.com>
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 14:37:11 -0700 Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote: > These are the raw issues without any friendly wording. > > 1. Bugs in 6.3 that are patched aren't available in any other > -RELEASE. 2. Bugs in 6.3 outstanding that don't affect 6.2 > 3. Overall amount of bugs. > 4. Difference in code base between 6.3 and 6-STABLE is > than 6.2 > and 6.3 > > These combine to produce a release which will never be "stable" for > production needs. You are in fact saying 6.3-RELEASE should not have been released at the time it was. It should have been posponed 'till some open bugs were solved. I agree with you that a RELEASE is supposed to be more mature / stable then a development version. And you state it is -not- -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++
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