release cycle

[Chris]

On 02/06/07, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> 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
>
>

He said using the ports is only supported in the latest FreeBSD
release, so eg. its not supported in 5.5 and 6.0 and 6.1.

Chris