From: "Robert Watson" <rwat...@freebsd.org>
About FreeBSD 6.4. If you consider to make new 6.4 iso's, perhaps it
would be better to think about an 6.5 release????
It's a question of bandwidth for the release engineering team, ports team,
security officer team, etc -- I think a 6.5 is pretty much out of the
question right now with 8.0 preparing to ramp up and 7.2 now in flight.
That gives us a short menu of options:
- Errata patches
- Errata patches + ISO reroll
- Point release
Because of the boot loader issues, errata patches don't really cut it
alone, as if you can't install, you definitely can't apply errata patches
:-). This suggests a reroll or a point release.
This reminds me of FreeBSD 4.6 and FreeBSD 4.6.2 (The first FreeBSD I ever
used was 4.6, that's why I remember)
For me the distinction remains fuzzy, but I think a key to either approach
would be avoiding having to fully re-QA, do BETAs, build new packages,
etc. This suggests taking RELENG_6_4 on some date, perhaps rebranching if
it's a point release, or not if it's an ISO reroll, and bundling it with
exactly the same packages we shipped in 6.4 (etc) and bumping a few
documentation parts.
Indeed, that's a lot of work for an errata patch.
Jack
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