From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 22:46:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB0216A403; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A2DB43D69; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A9181A3C20; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 55A79514B1; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:46:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:46:54 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Paul Allen Message-ID: <20061011224653.GA24829@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <451F6E8E.8020301@freebsd.org> <20061011102106.GY1594@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20061011151458.L97038@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20061011083021.C2780@treehorn.dfmm.org> <452D6CFD.4040905@FreeBSD.org> <20061011223610.GA30707@riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061011223610.GA30707@riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Jason Stone , Doug Barton , FreeBSD Stable , freebsd security , security-officer@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon 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: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:46:57 -0000 --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:36:10PM -0700, Paul Allen wrote: > Well, I suspect that most people with the resources to do what you ask > have already moved on precisely because the EoL has been published. > i.e., faced with that limited commitment, we had no choice but to > (grudgingly and at the last minute) move on. >=20 > I think the most likely path of success is, as you say, to make the 4.x > userland more like 6.x. >=20 > Without some prior commitment of project resources though, this > is unlikely to fly with anyone. >=20 > e.g., an agreement to EoL of 5.x and do port-cluster builds of=20 > a gcc 3.x variant of the 4.x kernel series. >=20 > I recall that this was done in Dragonfly for a while. The 4.x support policy was announced some time ago and may be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_releng_4.html We are not interested in increasing the level of support beyond this. In particular 4.x package builds will stop on 31 Jan 2007. Kris --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFLXRdWry0BWjoQKURAlehAKD5AfxEDut0PFwh4hvikTpTwXlNXwCgywGA 3rJDZTXJKJcEnnE3mx+x8eM= =Mdkb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--