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

[Kris Kennaway]

Chris Marlatt wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Jo Rhett wrote:
>>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>> Also, it's not like anyone should have been caught by surprise by 
>>>> the 6.2 EoL; the expiry date has been advertised since the 6.2 
>>>> release itself.
>>>
>>>
>>> It has changed multiple times.  I keep reviewing and finding 6.3 bugs 
>>> outstanding, and then observe the EoL get pushed.
>>>
>>> I'm surprised that it failed to get pushed this time.
>>>
>>
>> I'm sorry that the FreeBSD project failed to conform to your 
>> expectations.  However, I invite you to actually try 6.3 for yourself 
>> instead of assuming that it will fail.
>>
>> Kris
> 
> In an effort to potentially find a compromise between those who believe 
> FreeBSD is EoL'ing previous releases too quickly and those who don't. 
> Have those in a position to set FreeBSD release schedules debated the 
> option of setting a long term support release, a specific release picked 
> by the team to be support for,.. 4 or 5 years? Other projects have done 
> this will relative success and considering the "only" work required for 
> this release would be security patches the work load should be 
> minimized. Hopefully something like this could free up more time for the 
> FreeBSD developers to continue their work on the newer release(s) while 
> still answering the requests of what seems like quite a few of the 
> legacy FreeBSD users. Thoughts?
> 
> If this has already been discussed on-list I apologize for beating a 
> dead horse but I can't recall it bring brought up before.

Uh yeah, this has been in place for *years*.  Have you actually read the 
support announcements?  They are public ;)

Kris