From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 20:14:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 D2DD716A468 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:14:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8E713C45A for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so997607uge for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GD2zSYYuUL1Gy7OvE3eb/NQWVb/fWy4mjg6GVSTRMj0LbFfyeFncoJUpVXBZevpGlBD06PbgBBhf6raKYpsERVB6LjhZj3EDpI7bESP3Q9fkoPIPcWEiYbD21MCzYXqsbHHjmmq1Ynt+ggJGtdxAPmb/PpZI0WZ3rZLkerWYIB0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YwY4bIPLuBgUOmBfQL+sZLGE8LNEY4aRD4Qe8Nop8JHW5NCZVeBqrLEpMgaNiX3ObRx+IxOSCUQwUH0sVYl/w55HhgQZBpPxmp46gDpt/86JhcwUzSu6czS69uIcr2kEnJXw/qlaI+YaZFF/igPGRh/fc+uF7uUtm/IvVF2lZKw= Received: by 10.66.216.14 with SMTP id o14mr3332646ugg.1180988081699; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.24.16 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0706041314vc9965fft8680e146ace57186@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:14:41 +0100 From: Chris To: "Fabian Keil" In-Reply-To: <20070602140244.0cf05a93@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <465BF62B.6090904@vwsoft.com> <20070529102929.GA49322@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <20070529111757.GE70055@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070529182224.GD8255@soaustin.net> <3aaaa3a0706020045v1ce69a7bsec4a8dced2a99fe1@mail.gmail.com> <20070602140244.0cf05a93@localhost> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release cycle 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:14:46 -0000 On 02/06/07, Fabian Keil wrote: > Chris wrote: > > > On 29/05/07, Mark Linimon wrote: > > > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:17:57PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > > Agreed. 6.3-RELEASE would nominally be due around July but the lack > > > > of any schedule on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ suggests that it will > > > > be later than that. The plans to start the 7.0-RELEASE cycle will also > > > > impact this. > > > > > > At BSDCan, Ken Smith mentioned that 7.0 is due to be branched in July and > > > released in Aug/Sep, with 6.3 quickly following (perhaps even overlapping > > > so as to reuse the same ports freeze). > > > > > > The ports tree is not even close to stable enough to release right now. > > > Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system > > is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be > > upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this > > support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the > > ports tree be supported on both? > > I believe you misunderstood something. Where do you think Kris said that? > > Fabian > > He said using the ports is only supported in the latest FreeBSD release, so eg. its not supported in 5.5 and 6.0 and 6.1. Chris