On Sep 18, 2008, at 9:23 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
Let's consider three more productive avenues by which you can
offer assistance with the problem of how to increase branch
support lifetimes:
(1) Become a contributor to the community by developing and
maintaining
patches against unsupported branches, especially against older
releases
such as 4.x and 5.x where the branches are open for commits but
have
fallen out of support status. I can't promise the results will
We have no 4.x or 5.x systems nor do we have any interest in
maintaining those. So perhaps a good idea, but not something I can
help with.
I *did* offer to work on maintenance for 6.2, but was told it would
be rejected by the developers. Would I extend effort to do exactly
what I am talking about -- extending the support lifetime for very
recent releases? Absolutely. If its in a form useful for the
community as a whole.
Are you seriously insisting that a minor release should be supported
for more than a year? I think that's pretty exceptional already for
any piece of software, and yet you want to extend that?
I don't know what your line of work demands, but maybe you're not as
constrained as you think you are? The support lifetime of FreeBSD 6
(the major release) is estimated to be up to somewhere in 2010,
according to the release information, which seems to satisfy your needs.
To me this is a rhetorical question only, I have no way to apply any
answers I get to these questions. I'm not involved in the FreeBSD
project or in your line of work, I'm just a humble user and supporter.
Alban Hertroys
--
If you can't see the forest for the trees,
cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.
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