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

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen at punkt.de>

> I have never ever had a single problem caused by running RELENG_N.
> We changed that only because as the number of machines increases
> it pays to run the same software on all of them, and "RELEASE"
> provides a convenient (!) reference point for that. Yet, if I were
> affected by a particular bug in RELENG_6_3, I would simply pick
> my own later reference point at which the bug is fixed.

An alternative to this is to maintain a specific set of patches
to -RELEASE for only the issues / fixes that you are experiencing.

This has worked very well for us over the years so I can recommend
it as well.

Either way you get stable release which you can test and certify
in your own environment, keeping regression risks to an absolute
minimum.

    Regards
    Steve

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