RELEASE_X_Y_Z branches/tags maintained??

[Roman Kennke]

Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Kris Kennaway um 10:16:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:37:54AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Am Mo, den 25.10.2004 schrieb Kris Kennaway um 0:30:
> > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > > > Hello list,
> > > > 
> > > > I have a question regarding the branches/tags of the ports tree for
> > > > stable releases. Are they in any way maintained.
> > > 
> > > No.
> > 
> > Hmm, wouldn't this be a good thing to do, especially on production
> > machines? I would greatly appreciate that. I see no reason to do major
> > updates (like x.1 -> x.2 only to get fixes in. For production machines I
> > would prefer some kind of stability and conservativism.
> > What is the problem with such a setup? Lack of interest? Lack of
> > manpower? Or wrong philosophy?
> 
> Lack of manpower - it's a lot of extra work, and we already don't do a
> great job of keeping up with the incoming PR load.

I see. Difficult problem. There's a reason why OSes like Debian takes
several years to get a release out of the door. :-(

/Roman