Upcoming release schedule - 8.4 ?

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Jun-14 08:09:30 +0100, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>Except STABLE is no good for production, and the problem is EoL- updates
>and support stop.

There's nothing stopping you from from running -stable in production.
Obviously, you will need to do more extensive testing than you might
need to for a -release.

As for EoL, all software goes EoL and support for that software stops.
FreeBSD releases are typically supported for 4 years - IMO, that's
excellent value for money.

On 2012-Jun-14 12:48:19 +0100, Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Jun 14, 2012 9:30 AM, "Damien Fleuriot" <ml at my.gd> wrote:
>> I've moved us to 8.3-STABLE recently and am quite happy with it, so far.
>
>Too strong wording perhaps; but you can't claim that an EOL stable branch
>will have the level of support afforded to live branches.  That was
>supposed to be my point, as Mark has also explained.

You are the only person that is claiming that 8.x is EOL.  I have not
seen any official announcement to that effect.  The absence of an
announcement of 8.4-release does not make it EOL.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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