Hi Matt,
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Matt Olander wrote:
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.
As a last resort, I would be interested in this, but I'm more interested
in changing the culture of FreeBSD releases and long-term support in
general.
I think that:
a) there are a lot more people out there, that we never hear from, that
have these same problems, and another "4.x style" release would really
help them.
b) there are a lot of people out there that could be drawn into the
FreeBSD ecosystem if another "4.x style" release existed.
I would much rather donate $10k to a $100k kickstarter and have this be
"official" than set aside $10k privately for unofficial maintenance, or a
"fork".
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