This makes no sense. Ports are not tied to base releases. And you think lack of developer resources is an invalid reason?
There was no mid-release issue with base as far as I know. The issue was with ports and by extension pkgng (and related -ngs).
You know good and well that people kick the can down the road FOREVER. You could have announced it 3 years ahead and people would still scream NOT YET! NOT YET! This would NEVER happen in Linux!
The announcement <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-February/000077.html> was dated Feb 3 2014, leaving all of 7 months until the planned deprecation. Even if you could make a case that pkgng was ready (it wasn't) 7 months is far less than the 2 calendar year and dozens of person-year cycles required by some infrastructure-critical production environments. It's even farther from the 7+ years that other FOSS distributions support their releases.
It's a business, right? You aren't talking about a shoestring hobby.
There's no need to shoot the messenger here. I may be expressing an opinion but it is one that is shared by all of my colleagues: developers, administrators and managers alike. Roger _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
