Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 08:26:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: nbm@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request to refrain from calling 2.2.x unsupported Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008070821240.85672-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <12894.965661152@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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> On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 07:59:59 MST, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > How about "retired"? > > I think that this is also misleading and is not as close to the truth. > I think that "retired" can be misconstrued as implying that the branch > is no longer used. That's not true. > > However, I do think that even this is a better alternative to the more > politically dangerous "unsupported". You can still get outstanding > support for 2.2.8-STABLE questions on freebsd-questions. Actually, I'd like a confirming take on this from folks.. I just got through doing a massive rewrite to the QLogic driver, but I made a judgement call that 2.X was not an important backport target. The backport would require some non-driver changes (like vsnprintf). I know of lots of places still using 2.X, but all of them treat it as a legacy platform and don't, except in certain cases, look for new stuff to be backported. I believe users expect security fixes, but is there an active enough user community on 2.2.X expecting, say, a new release, that we should keep it off the back shelf? This comes to a head because of the bug cleanup. The bug cleanup is the right thing to do because there are so many obsolete bugs that nobody (okay, "I can't") really can browse the database and see what's pertinent at the moment. Maybe the best thing to do is to have a separate gnats database for the 2.X stream? -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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