Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 08:11:55 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Manish Jain <jude.obscure@yandex.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A request for release engineering Message-ID: <670715be-849c-47fc-72b4-42b81cf31c0a@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com> References: <4acac175-9bf2-40a6-a41a-cb5870641c8d@yandex.com>
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On 10/05/2018 19:15, Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I have no idea whether this is the right list to make this request to. > But I could not find any other list that would definitely be better suited. > > I noticed when trying to build a port under my 10.3 box that support for > 10.3 has now expired. I have no problems with that - I will install 12 > afresh when it becomes available later this year. > > But since installing afresh demands a whole effort, I request that > FreeBSD reduce its new releases to one per year, while the support > period is increased to 3 years per release. > > Does this sound like a good request to others too ? > The FreeBSD support model was announced over three years ago: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html In particular - Each new release from the stable/X branch deprecates the previous release on the branch, providing a three-month window within which consumers are urged to upgrade to the latest release. During this three-month window, Security Advisories and Errata Notices will still be issued for the previous release, as necessary. Why not simply update to 10.4? -- An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).
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