[fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:36:10PM -0700, Paul Allen wrote:
> Well, I suspect that most people with the resources to do what you ask
> have already moved on precisely because the EoL has been published.
> i.e., faced with that limited commitment, we had no choice but to
> (grudgingly and at the last minute) move on.
> 
> I think the most likely path of success is, as you say, to make the 4.x
> userland more like 6.x.
> 
> Without some prior commitment of project resources though, this
> is unlikely to fly with anyone.
> 
> e.g., an agreement to EoL of 5.x and do port-cluster builds of 
> a gcc 3.x variant of the 4.x kernel series.
> 
> I recall that this was done in Dragonfly for a while.

The 4.x support policy was announced some time ago and may be found
here:

  http://www.freebsd.org/portmgr/policies_releng_4.html

We are not interested in increasing the level of support beyond this.
In particular 4.x package builds will stop on 31 Jan 2007.

Kris
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