FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:33:40 pm Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 19 January 2012 09:47, Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org> wrote:
> 
> > I just want to chime in here, what is the deal with killing off a
> > potential 7.5-RELEASE ? Having a few  7.3-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE
> > servers  I would like to see a 7.5-RELEASE that is supported to 2015
> > to prevent another major upgrade cycle . There are still freebsd
> > developers working on 7-STABLE and its been reliable and working for
> > me and I am sure a few other people.
> >
> > What could I do to help make 7.5-RELEASE a reality ?
> >
> 
> Put your hand up and volunteer to run the 7.5-RELEASE release cycle.

That's not actually true or really fair.  There has to be some buy-in from the 
project to do an official release; it is not something that a single person
can do off in a corner and then have the Project bless the bits as an official 
release.

-- 
John Baldwin