Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

[Chris Rees]

On Jun 15, 2012 9:39 AM, "Peter Jeremy" <peter at rulingia.com> wrote:
>
> On 2012-Jun-14 08:09:30 +0100, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates
> >and support stop.
>
> There's nothing stopping you from from running -stable in production.
> Obviously, you will need to do more extensive testing than you might
> need to for a -release.
>
> As for EoL, all software goes EoL and support for that software stops.
> FreeBSD releases are typically supported for 4 years - IMO, that's
> excellent value for money.
>
> On 2012-Jun-14 12:48:19 +0100, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Jun 14, 2012 9:30 AM, "Damien Fleuriot" <ml at my.gd> wrote:
> >> I've moved us to 8.3-STABLE recently and am quite happy with it, so
far.
> >
> >Too strong wording perhaps; but you can't claim that an EOL stable branch
> >will have the level of support afforded to live branches.  That was
> >supposed to be my point, as Mark has also explained.
>
> You are the only person that is claiming that 8.x is EOL.  I have not
> seen any official announcement to that effect.  The absence of an
> announcement of 8.4-release does not make it EOL.

Of course not. The fear that this whole thread is about the possibility of
EoL this year or soon; the OP wants support for longer.

Chris