From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 15:51:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7F516A40F for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:51:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7608113C44B for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:51:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 8584 invoked by uid 399); 20 Dec 2006 21:04:20 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Dec 2006 21:04:20 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <4589A520.9050304@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:03:28 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Smith References: <000801c723bb$efc2b540$260ba8c0@wii.wintecind.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c723bb$efc2b540$260ba8c0@wii.wintecind.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support 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: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:51:00 -0000 John Smith wrote: > Support for FreeBSD 4.11 is going to end sometime in late January. > Originally, FreeBSD 6.2 was supposed to be released back in > October. This would have given everyone about 3 months to stress > test everything and migrate all their boxes from 4.11 direct to > 6.2. Now it is near the end of December, and FreeBSD 6.2 RC2 has > yet to be seen anywhere. Chances are that FreeBSD 6.2 Release will > come out earliest mid-January. This does not give much time for > people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD release. I think it would > be fair if support is extended for a few more months especially > since 6.2 is so late in coming. As has been stated many times, the issue here is not one of "fairness," or any other theoretical concern. The issue is one of resources, and the resources to continue supporting 4.11 are not there. That said, there is nothing preventing anyone that needs to from stress testing the RELENG_6_2 branch right now, in fact we encourage people to do so! The only thing going into that branch right now are small fixes, so you can be reasonably sure that what you're testing now will be very close to what 6.2-RELEASE will look like. Obviously it would be better if you tracked the -stable and cvs-src mailing lists while doing your testing, but if you're in the position you describe it's probably better that you do that anyway. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection