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Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Robert Watson wrote:

>
> I think John gets a lot of what he wants if we just fix our release cycle.
>


Agreed.  I still think that having two "production" releases running 
simultaneously really hurts focus and the end product, but that's not 
going to keep us from using FreeBSD.

Not getting a decent five years out of a major release and not getting a 
minor release every 4-6 months *will* keep us from using FreeBSD.