challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hello,

On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:28:21PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:

> In rereading my quotes I may have not been clear on something.  The vast 
> majority of these bugs have already been fixed. ("not in a state that needs 
> help identifying" was what I said trying to cover both that and known bugs 
> without a fix yet)
> 
> However, the fixes are not available in a -RELEASE version of the operating 
> system.

Yes. So what?

Upgrading your systems to 6.3 takes _precisely_ the same amount
of work as upgrading to "6-STABLE as of today 00:00 GMT".
You may want to pick a different point of time, but it really
doesn't matter, because a release _is_ just a CVS branch created
at a certain time.

> This is why EoLing 6.2 and forcing people to upgrade to a release 
> with lots of known issues is a problem.

People who have issues with RELENG_6_3 should upgrade to RELENG_6
which is perfectly supported.

Kind regards,
Patrick
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