Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:40:36 -0700 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>, Nathan Way <nathan@datanode.com> Subject: Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule... Message-ID: <CB36FE28-D125-4C22-B5DE-1001515DD8A6@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <20080904133604.GB1188@atarininja.org> References: <1219409496.10487.22.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <593618A3-56DA-4891-A4A0-690E9A9C5B32@netconsonance.com> <F17BE4F1F989BB4A81EB94C36712A9736F3493@dni-mail.datanode.com> <20080904133604.GB1188@atarininja.org>
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>>> Where can one find the expected EoL for these releases? > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:24:04PM -0700, Nathan Way wrote: >> http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#supported-branches >> To quote from the above web site: (snip) On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:36 AM, Wesley Shields wrote: > These are the existing releases. I believe Jo was looking for EoL for > 7.1 and 6.4 once they are released. Yes, thank you. > The answer to that is not clear - > nor do I know if it should be clear yet. I don't know when the type > of > support decision is made, but I suspect it's not this early in the > process. The release date for 6.4 is ~30 days away, isn't it? Also given that we've previously seen overlaps such that a newer version is only supported to the same EoL as the older version, that would pretty much dictate that spending resources on testing 6.4-REL and/or upgrading would be futile. To go back to the original statements made at the time: "you should consider the lifetime of the release before you invest resources in it". That means we need to know the lifetime to determine how much resources to apply to testing it, yes? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
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