On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM, John Kozubik <j...@kozubik.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > >>>> I am looking at the upcoming release schedule, and I only see 9.1 >>>> listed - can anyone confirm or deny 8.4 ? >>> >>> >>> Although I am not on re@, AFAIK the only schedule that is on the table >>> is the one for 9.1. >>> >> >> Release 8.3 (April 2012) has it really been 6 months yet! > > > > We (rsync.net) are deploying our new ZFS based platform on FreeBSD. This is > a platform that needs to be live in just a few weeks.[1] > > We only run release software. Further, I don't think anyone will fault us > for steering clear of 9.0-RELEASE. 9.1 is probably four months away. > > So our choices are 8, which has no roadmap, and 9 which doesn't exist. > > On the one hand, we've made this choice before, when we invested hundreds of > thousands of dollars into equipment, code, training, etc. for 6.4. We've > successfully amortized this investment over the past 4-5 years, but not > without a lot of pain. The past 24 months has been a lot of custom work, > backporting drivers, etc. We don't want to repeat this. > > On the other hand, we're not going to debut a new platform, to customers all > over the world, on 9.0. > > So ... how about a kickstarter, since that's all the rage ? What would a > reasonable total be, donated to the FreeBSD foundation, that would ensure > the maintenance of the 8.x branch for another 3 years (say, Dec 31, 2015) > and out to (to pick an arbitrary number) 8.10 ? > > Just a thought ... > > > [1] After years of evaluation and testing, spanning 6.x - 8.x.
Hey John, So, we've (iXsystems, PC-BSD) been kicking around the idea of a Long Term Supported version of "PC-BSD Server", which is really FreeBSD with some PC-BSD cli tools and perhaps maintaining our own binary update server. While we were thinking of doing this with 9.1, we can consider 8.x. I'll speak with Kris Moore and the rest of the team and find out what it will take. We've hired a contract release engineer with this task in mind but you're right, most of the work will be in backporting. I like the idea of coming up with a number it would take and a plan to do it. We're not the only people with the problem, obviously. Cheers, -matt _______________________________________________ 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"
