On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:52:28 am Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 13 June 2012 05:53, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >> You don't need to change the FreeBSD culture. We'd love to do an 8.4 > >> release. And an 8.5 release, and 8.6 release, etc. The problem is one > >> of resources and time, not of culture/desire. > > > > I disagree. The pace of X.0 releases is a deliberate choice FreeBSD > > has made and directly impacts the number of "live" branches in existence. > > Given our developer base, we can't really support 3 branches concurrently > > (head + 2 stable like we have now with head, 9, and 8). Having longer lived > > stable branches requires either increasing resources to support exising > > releases longer, or slowing the pace of X.0 releases (but more aggressively > > merging things from HEAD back). The latter case, especially, is part of > > the culture and would be a choice we as a Project would have to make. > > Right, but I don't think the freebsd project would really mind or > change much if more people came on board to handle legacy releases and > support them. > > If you're a company that uses FreeBSD stable releases, please consider > contributing engineering resources and/or donations to the Foundation > to improve the support of said stable releases. :)
No, that doesn't actually work. Having additional support on a stable branch requires someone able to 1) commit changes to stable branches and 2) be able to cut newer releases from said branches (i.e. doing the work of re@). You cannot get that as an outside entity. It requires buy-in from the Project itself. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"