From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Aug 22 7:16:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E983837B43C; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 13REqO-0006Z5-00; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:16:00 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA18682; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:15:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 18178; Tue Aug 22 16:12:29 2000 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13REmz-0006O6-00; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:12:29 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Johan Karlsson Cc: Roger Hardiman , johan@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, wollman@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When to close old PRs, Was: Re: kern/6854: [PATCH] probing brooktree849 capture card In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:45:22 +0200." <200008221145.NAA47132@numeri.campus.luth.se> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:12:29 +0200 Message-ID: <24557.966953549@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:45:22 +0200, Johan Karlsson wrote: > I think that in this case it should be closed since it has been fixed in > 3.x and later. > > And yes we always expect our users to upgrade to the latest supported > release (or actively maintained branch) to get the latest bug fixes > since that is more or less the only way to get them. If they do not want > to upgrade they can sometimes manually apply the patches to there branch > of choise. Garrett Wollman uses a term for this that I quite like: EOL. I think it means either End Of Line or End Of Lifecycle, and it quite succinctly describes branches like RELENG_2_2. Such branches aren't "unsupported", or are they "obsolete", nor do you _have_ to upgrade beyond them. Rather, they have simply reached the end of the line with respect to active development. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message