freebsd mirroring/release strategy over the next 12 months ?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:09:15PM +1000, jason andrade wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what you're looking for here.
> 
> the freebsd project is getting bigger.  i've been bitten in the
> ass before by not being able to accomodate archive growth and
> it causing lots more work for me down the track to juggle disk
> space.
> 
> i'm trying to get an accurate picture of what's happening now,
> where things will be in 12 months and also if there's anything
> that can/should be done in the mirroring process along the way
> to make it easier for me (and others).  the time to do these
> things seems to be between releases rather than during them.
> 
> if it is just noise i'm happy to shut up now :)

Growth will come from:

* New architectures (e.g. PPC)
* Growth of ports collection
* Fixes to broken ports
* Branching of 5.x-STABLE, since we will then have 3 streams to
  support, until 4.x is retired.

Kris
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