Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

[Mark Saad]

I'll share my 2 cents here, as someone who maintains a decent sided
FreeBSD install.

1. FreeBSD needs to make end users more comfortable with using a
Dot-Ohh release; and at the time of the dot-ohh release
a timeline for the next point releases should be made. *

2. Having three supported releases is showing issues , and brings up
the point of why was 9.0 not released as 8.3 ? **

3. The end users appear to want less releases, and for them to be
supported longer .

* A rough outline would do and it should be on the main release page
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/

** Yes I understand that 9.0 had tons of new features that were added
and its not exactly a point release upgrade from 8.2 , however one can
argue that if it were there would be less yelling about when version X
is going to be EOL'd and when will version Y be released.



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mark saad | nonesuch at longcount.org