proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's obviously open to discussion and there's nobody demanding anything here. It just seems "better". Old te

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread jonathan michaels
freebsd-stable et al ... On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the > following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this > is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's obviously open to

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Colin Percival
jonathan michaels wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's obviously open to discu

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Colin Percival wrote: jonathan michaels wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:03PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this is what we feel wo

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jo Rhett wrote: Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's obviously open to discussion and there's nobody demanding anything here. It just seems "

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:37 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > Some quite lively offline discussion has come to conclusion with the > following suggestions to change the support policy. Obviously, this > is what we feel would be a good idea, but it's obviously open to > discussion and there's nobody d

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Jo Rhett
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:37 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: Normal Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 12 months after the release. A release which is not the final minor release of a branch will be additionally supported

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-09-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Each branch is supported by the Security Officer for a limited time > only, and is designated as one of `Early adopter', `Normal', or > Final'. The designation is used as a guideline for determining the > lifetime of the branch as follows. I'm not clear on h

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-10-01 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: I'm not clear on how this helps. We don't know if there will be a need to produce a 6.5 release, so there's no way to judge whether 6.4 should be designated "final" or not. The only logical answer is to do so, which leaves a substantial chance

Re: proposed change to support policy for FreeBSD Releases

2008-10-11 Thread Jo Rhett
Hi, Colin. Any news/thoughts on where we are with this? -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f