challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Scott Long]

Jo Rhett wrote:
> Okay, I totally understand that FreeBSD wants people to upgrade from 6.2 
> to 6.3.  But given that 6.3 is still experiencing bugs with things that 
> are working fine and stable in 6.2, this is a pretty hard case to make.

Can you describe the bugs that are affecting you?

> 
> This is also a fairly significant investment in terms of time and money 
> for any business to handle this ugprade.  It totally understand 
> obsoleting 5.x now that 7.x is out.  But 6.2 is barely a year old...
> 

The expectation is always that newer versions of a stable branch will 
have few regressions, and thus upgrading is a low risk.

Scott