Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:37:27 -0700 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases Message-ID: <E7E93D37-3404-45D6-81C5-17015BB41FD9@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <44abdw9oeq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <40C58F46-D705-4BE0-8AE5-17D901EE381A@netconsonance.com> <44abdw9oeq.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > I'm not clear on how this helps. We don't know if there will be a > need to produce a 6.5 release, so there's no way to judge whether 6.4 > should be designated "final" or not. The only logical answer is to do > so, which leaves a substantial chance that there will end up being > more than one "final" release on the 6.x line. That's not a > particularly desirable situation. > > In fact, it's worse, because if 6.5 happens, it will probably be > because there were problems with 6.4 serious enough that we'd rather > people move to 6.5 anyway (at least for critical systems). You are exactly right. I am proposing that we stop trying to guess whether or not it is a final release. A release will be supported until the next release + N months (N is currently being debated I guess) or 24 months if there is no followup release. This effectively solves both of the problems you've very accurately named above. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
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