FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[Julian Elischer]

On 1/17/12 12:11 PM, Mark Saad wrote:
> Here are My 2 Cents ,
>
> 1. Support each release longer, or develop a better way to MFS ( Merge
> from Stable ) bug fixes, and driver updates to RELEASE. It always
> seams that there are a number of things in X-STABLE I would love to
> have in X.3-RELEASE and X.4-RELEASE, and I do not want all of X-STABLE
> just some new drivers and fixes  .
>
> 2. Spell out the entire RELEASE road map at the beginning of the
> release. So for 9.0-RELEASE set tentative dates for 9.1, 9.2, 9.x etc
> .

I think by the ".2" release of a line we should have some idea
as to whether a particular lineage is going to provide a good basis 
for extended life.

if for example we were to declare that 8 is really quite good,
we might decide to declare it as having a longer life and allow 9 to 
die earlier as we go forward.
I  do understand the requirement for a stable basis for work but I
can not say how many of the changes for newer hardware will get ported 
back. or by who.

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