On 13 Jun 2012, at 19:27, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:52:28 am Adrian Chadd wrote: >> 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. :) > > No, that doesn't actually work. Having additional support on a stable > branch requires someone able to 1) commit changes to stable branches and > 2) be able to cut newer releases from said branches (i.e. doing the work > of re@). You cannot get that as an outside entity. It requires buy-in > from the Project itself. >
Jumping in. I for one, as a fbsd admin on corporate servers ( read not commiter), would dearly like less releases but a more aggressive MFC approach. _______________________________________________ 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"
