Again, no-one is going to really complain if vendors/users decide to step up and run longer supported branches.
I personally encourage that. I _encourage_ that people who are interested in keeping 6.x and earlier alive (and 7.x soon, and 8.x less soon) to jump in and submit patches to backport fixes and whatnot. The problem isn't that we don't want to - it's that we just don't have the collective time and energy to backport things to branches we're not using. If you're a company with a heavy investment in older branches, please consider what I've said. Participate in FreeBSD development and offer to support branches for longer. But please don't complain to a bunch of volunteers who look after stuff in their spare time, or companies who fund work for FreeBSD branches that they're using. The 'project' does what its users and developers contribute to. Adrian _______________________________________________ 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"
