release cycle

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 09:17:17PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> On 02/06/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 02:02:44PM +0200, Fabian Keil 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?
> >
> >Yep, looks like he's confused again.  I hope it's not a terminal
> >condition.
> >
> >Kris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Please repeat what you told me when I asked why a variable I had to
> set on 6.1 machines wasnt put in UPDATING.

Quoting from http://www.freebsd.org/ports/:

--
The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the
FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches.
--

i.e. just because 7.0 is released starting a new -STABLE branch does
not mean that the other -STABLE branches lose support.

Kris