Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:13:53 -0800 (PST) From: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> To: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1201191511470.19710@kozubik.com> In-Reply-To: <20120119005658.218280@gmx.com> References: <20120119005658.218280@gmx.com>
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Dieter BSD wrote: > John writes: >> - EOL 7 >> - mark 8 as legacy >> - mark 9 as the _only_ production release >> - release 10.0 in January 2017 > > Until a few days ago 8 was the latest, shinest release. > So you want to suddenly demote it all the way down to legacy? > I thought the goal was to have releases that can be used for a long time? No, that's not quite what I meant. I was speaking at the same time about the problem of having two concurrent "production" releases. Since 9.0 is already released, you can't stop having two production releases with 8, since 9 is already here. So i was saying *after* you continue the normal 8.x lifecycle (perhaps another 1 or 1.5 years, getting it to 8.5 *then* you make the drastic changes, which I showed in the list above. So 8 would become legacy on the same schedule that it always had. No changes there. The change comes with 9 being the only production release, and 10.0-RELEASE being delayed.
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