FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[John Kozubik]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Dieter BSD wrote:

> John writes:
>> - EOL 7
>> - mark 8 as legacy
>> - mark 9 as the _only_ production release
>> - release 10.0 in January 2017
>
> Until a few days ago 8 was the latest, shinest release.
> So you want to suddenly demote it all the way down to legacy?
> I thought the goal was to have releases that can be used for a long time?


No, that's not quite what I meant.

I was speaking at the same time about the problem of having two concurrent 
"production" releases.

Since 9.0 is already released, you can't stop having two production 
releases with 8, since 9 is already here.

So i was saying *after* you continue the normal 8.x lifecycle (perhaps 
another 1 or 1.5 years, getting it to 8.5 *then* you make the drastic 
changes, which I showed in the list above.

So 8 would become legacy on the same schedule that it always had.  No 
changes there.  The change comes with 9 being the only production release, 
and 10.0-RELEASE being delayed.