Removing documentation
John Marino
freebsdml at marino.st
Mon Feb 15 17:40:40 UTC 2016
On 2/15/2016 6:32 PM, Roger Marquis wrote:
>> This makes no sense. Ports are not tied to base releases.
>> And you think lack of developer resources is an invalid reason?
>
> There was no mid-release issue with base as far as I know. The issue was
> with ports and by extension pkgng (and related -ngs).
ports are developed independently. They do not follow release
schedules. Ports have to support all supported releases, that's the
only connection.
To say ports support has to coincide with a base release schedule shows
a lack of understanding of ports development process. It also doesn't
account for 3 concurrent releases (or 2 releases and -CURRENT) which are
not synchronized.
> was dated Feb 3 2014, leaving all of 7 months until the planned
> deprecation. Even if you could make a case that pkgng was ready (it
> wasn't) 7 months is far less than the 2 calendar year and dozens of
> person-year cycles required by some infrastructure-critical production
> environments. It's even farther from the 7+ years that other FOSS
> distributions support their releases.
what FOSS distributions support releases for 7+ years for gratis? One
pays for that kind of support. Did your organization offer to pay for
extended support?
>> It's a business, right? You aren't talking about a shoestring hobby.
>
> There's no need to shoot the messenger here. I may be expressing an
> opinion but it is one that is shared by all of my colleagues: developers,
> administrators and managers alike.
All your colleagues, developers, administrators, and managers want
enterprise level support without paying any money at all? They *all*
think volunteers provide that level of support just because? This is
not messenger-shooting, this is wondering what kind of place has
expectations like that.
I've never worked at a place like that.
John
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