release cycle

[Colin Percival]

Scott Long wrote:
> Colin Percival wrote:
>> I point releases have been obsoleted by errata notices.  In the past when
>> X.Y.Z-RELEASE has happened, it has been because of critical bugs in the
>> X.Y-RELEASE which there wasn't any other mechanism to fix.  Now that we
>> have errata noticed and FreeBSD Update is in the base system, it's vastly
>> easier for users to run "freebsd-update fetch install" than it is for
>> them to upgrade to a new release.
> 
> Not really.  5.2.1 existed because people were having problems getting
> 5.2 installed on their ATA disks.  If you have big problems with storage
> or network, freebsd-update isn't going to be of much use to you.

Good point, I was forgetting exactly what the problems were that time.

Colin Percival