Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:18:39 +0100 From: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Smith <freebsd@addict.com> Subject: Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support Message-ID: <458A97BF.1090503@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <458A2B14.5070009@freebsd.org> References: <000801c723bb$efc2b540$260ba8c0@wii.wintecind.com> <458A2B14.5070009@freebsd.org>
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Colin Percival wrote: > John Smith wrote: >> Support for FreeBSD 4.11 is going to end sometime in late January. >> Originally, FreeBSD 6.2 was supposed to be released back in October. This >> would have given everyone about 3 months to stress test everything and >> migrate all their boxes from 4.11 direct to 6.2. > > You've had three months to stress test 6.2-BETA1, 6.2-BETA2, 6.2-BETA3, and > 6.2-RC1. We release these for a reason, you know. > >> Now it is near the end of >> December, and FreeBSD 6.2 RC2 has yet to be seen anywhere. Chances are that >> FreeBSD 6.2 Release will come out earliest mid-January. This does not give >> much time for people to migrate to the newest FreeBSD release. I think it >> would be fair if support is extended for a few more months especially since >> 6.2 is so late in coming. > > Your opinion has been noted. > > Colin Percival I have to second the OP's opinion. :-) I think it is important to be able to stress test the *final* release before installing on production machines. There is little use in stress testing BETAs and then install a broken RELEASE. This happened with 6.1-RELEASE where the nfs server was suddenly unusable on amd64. Regards,
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