On 13 June 2012 05:53, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> You don't need to change the FreeBSD culture. We'd love to do an 8.4 >> release. And an 8.5 release, and 8.6 release, etc. The problem is one >> of resources and time, not of culture/desire. > > I disagree. The pace of X.0 releases is a deliberate choice FreeBSD > has made and directly impacts the number of "live" branches in existence. > Given our developer base, we can't really support 3 branches concurrently > (head + 2 stable like we have now with head, 9, and 8). Having longer lived > stable branches requires either increasing resources to support exising > releases longer, or slowing the pace of X.0 releases (but more aggressively > merging things from HEAD back). The latter case, especially, is part of > the culture and would be a choice we as a Project would have to make.
Right, but I don't think the freebsd project would really mind or change much if more people came on board to handle legacy releases and support them. If you're a company that uses FreeBSD stable releases, please consider contributing engineering resources and/or donations to the Foundation to improve the support of said stable releases. :) Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
