On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:35 AM Steve Wills wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4/22/21 6:00 PM, Alan Somers wrote:
> > Because we have a policy of never releasing anything even a little bit
> > backwards-incompatible in a minor release.
>
> I believe we have made backwards incompatible changes in minor branche
Hi,
On 4/22/21 6:00 PM, Alan Somers wrote:
Because we have a policy of never releasing anything even a little bit
backwards-incompatible in a minor release.
I believe we have made backwards incompatible changes in minor branches
in the fairly recent past, at least compiler changes and VM chan
Because we have a policy of never releasing anything even a little bit
backwards-incompatible in a minor release. imp, for example, has been
removing obsolete drivers in main. We can remove old drives in a major
release, but not in a minor one. That's why we can't release 13.1 from the
main bran
Hi,
Just wondering a bit. Why wouldn't the FreeBSD project release 13.1 from the
main branch in about six months or some other time period? While making some
monthly errata releases in the meantime.
- This saves a lot of back porting of commits.
- It prevents branches with old code like the cur