release cycle

[Fabian Keil]

Chris <chrcoluk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29/05/07, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:17:57PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > Agreed.  6.3-RELEASE would nominally be due around July but the lack
> > > of any schedule on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ suggests that it will
> > > be later than that.  The plans to start the 7.0-RELEASE cycle will also
> > > impact this.
> >
> > At BSDCan, Ken Smith mentioned that 7.0 is due to be branched in July and
> > released in Aug/Sep, with 6.3 quickly following (perhaps even overlapping
> > so as to reuse the same ports freeze).
> >
> > The ports tree is not even close to stable enough to release right now.

> Given that Kris repeatedly tells me and others that the ports system
> is only supported on the latest freebsd release (meaning one has to be
> upgrading freebsd on their servers every few months to get this
> support) if 7.0 and 6.3 are released around the same time will the
> ports tree be supported on both?

I believe you misunderstood something. Where do you think Kris said that?

Fabian
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