There is currently no usable release of FreeBSD.

[Allan Jude]

On 2014-06-04 16:36, Stefan Parvu wrote:
> 
>> Technically, the branches are stable
> 
> fair enough, but remember some people don't know what are FreeBSD branches
> nor the internal notation or the calling convention. They want to know what can 
> they download to use on their production environments. As well, probable makes
> sense to have somewhere defined why there are 3 stable, production releases
> and the life support scheme for each.
> 
> Sort of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29
> (Solaris Release Timeline)
> 
>> so it'd be:
>> Releases: 10.0, 9.2, 8.4
>> Testing: 11-snapshot, 9.3
> 
> Sounds good. I think legacy should be dropped in favour of something simpler and easy
> to digest from sys admins to data center managers.
> 

Yes, the term 'Legacy' has negative connotations that do not fit 9.2 and 8.4

After discussing it with gjb via Phabricator, the proposed change will read:

LATEST RELEASES:
>> Production:	10.0,
	9.2, 8.4
>> Upcoming:	9.3


This will make it more clear that it is entirely acceptable to install
9.2 on a new system.

-- 
Allan Jude

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