when 5.5

Chris chrcoluk at gmail.com
Sun May 14 19:36:11 PDT 2006


On 12/05/06, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:56:43PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> > On 11/05/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > >On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > >> Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step with new
> > >> ones, or is it just coincidence that it's happening this way this time?
> > >
> > >It was deliberate this time to avoid an extra ports freeze cycle,
> > >since that has very high cost and the benefit is really low since the
> > >intended audience for 5.5 is small and everyone who can do so will be
> > >much better off with the enormous benefits of 6.
> > >
> > >Kris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Ahh makes sense to me now, since port freezes are annoying.  So there
> > is no danger of 5.5 been released after 5.4 EOL then?
>
> Since the 5.4 EOL date has just been extended by several months I would say
> that it seems exceedingly unlikely that 5.5 will be released after 5.4 is EOL.
>
>
>
> --
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> Erik Trulsson
> ertr1013 at student.uu.se
>

yep seen the updated news :)

Chris


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