On Sep 22, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
Lack of human resources, to use a vile term, is currently the
limiting factor. What happens when that is cleared is another
question, but in the end there aren't a whole lot of paths to
greater efficiency here:
...
This is an inherently manual process because security patches touch
a variety of parts of the system and each has different
implications, the tendency for vulnerabilities to come in classes,
etc.
Great, thanks. Do we have any idea how much additional human
resources would be necessary to extend the support period?
because there was significant divergence and maintaining three
active development branches at once (5.x, 6.x, and 7.x) was a
serious stretch.
I've never suggested maintaining 3 different release versions, and I
wouldn't suggest trying. When Sun, Microsoft, et al decide that they
don't have the resources to support 3 major revisions, it's a pretty
good reason to think that FreeBSD can't either ;-)
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
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