Quoting Jeremy Chadwick, who wrote on Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 06:18:40AM -0700 .. > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:46:09PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > Quoting Jo Rhett, who wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:25:27PM -0700 .. > > > On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Robert Watson wrote: > > > > An important factor is whether or not we consider the release a > > > > highly maintainable release, and while we have intuitions at the > > > > time of release, that's something we can only learn in the first > > > > couple of months after it's in production. I don't know of any COTS > > > > software house that really does it any differently > > > > > > I understand what you mean, but the statement is blatantly false as > > > stated. Anyone selling software to the US Government *must* specify > > > (or meet, depending) a minimum support period, and must also specify a > > > cost the agency can pay to extend the support period. > > > > > > Not relevant to FreeBSD -- just qualifying the statement as it > > > stands. For the obvious comparison, Solaris versions have well- > > > published release and support periods, usually upwards of 8 years. > > > Obviously they have more resources to do this, I'm just pointing out > > > that the statement you made is incorrect as stated. > > > > > > > and I'm not sure you could do it differently -- no one plans to ship > > > > a lemon, but once in a while you discover that things don't go as > > > > planned. > > > > > > > > > I am amazed at the preposterously large elephant in the room that none > > > of you are willing to address. Watching each of you dance around it > > > would be terribly funny if it didn't affect my job so badly. (and if > > > I wasn't going to have to bail on FreeBSD and go to some crap form of > > > Linux because the FreeBSD developers appear to be unwilling to > > > consider the idea of getting more help) > > > > You seem to be *demanding* quite a lot lately. > > Jo has a point, though. I'm certain he's looked at the situation from > the developers' point of view, and in response, I'd recommend others > try to look at it from his, even if others consider it silly or > unreasonable. > > It's a frustrating situation, and there's no snap-your-fingers-voila > solution for it, other than extending support lifetimes per release.
Indeed, there is no easy solution. Extending support lifetime takes more resources of course. Wilko _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
