----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:22 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote: > > >Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the > >salaries of the release engineering team for a few months, > > The same way they're being paid for their work on other > releases? ;-)
We couldn't afford it :) > >Eh? If the important part is the security fixes, why not just > >install 4.11 and then apply the security fixes? > > That's fine for awhile, but there will soon be enough > that this will be painful. And it may be a good idea to > produce a release containing other code that's been backported > from 5.x and 6.x. Nothing stops someone other than the normal RE team from rolling something release-esque (like a 4.X snapshot) and requesting that it be made available for download on the FreeBSD sites.... or rolling your own release for internal use. The RE team is already pretty booked for 5.X releases and, possibly, the 6.0 release this year. I would really prefer to keep them on that rather than delaying any of this for a 4.X release. That said a 4.11-20050501 (or thereabouts) snapshot/mini-release would probably keep most people pretty happy while they move forward to 5.X. Lastly... 5.3 has been working brilliantly for me on every system I installed it on. 5.4 is looking even better. Any 4.X snapshot should be considered a stopgap measure until you have time/resources to move onward to 5.4. -Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
