[fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Dan Lukes wrote:

> 	But, maybe for my poor knowledge of english, you misunderstand the 
> point of my think.

Your English is quite good, actually. :)

> 	The main problem is - 6.x is still not competitive replacement for 
> 4.x. I'm NOT speaking about old unsupported hardware - I speaked about 
> performance in some situation and believe in it's stability.
>
> 	It has been serie of decisions of commiters and release team that 
> create current situation and all I say is, the resulting situation is not 
> good because we must drop product when worse replacement available only.

I think saying that it's a worse replacement is a bit too broad. There are 
many cases where 6.x performs better than 4.x. However, to say that 6.x is 
always better would also be too broad (in addition to being demonstrably 
false).

The key (as I stated in a previous mail) is for those that are seeing 
performance problems to jump in and help make it better. You are partially 
correct when you say that the developer community is only interested in more 
recent issues. I say partially because while in some cases it may be an 
"attention span" issue as you suggest, it's also due to the fact that as a 
project we've made an architectural decision to move forward along the path 
we're on. The "way of the future" is further down this road, not backing up 
to the 4.x days. Therefore, if 6.x is not working for you, for whatever 
reason, it's time to get in the game.

> 	Despite of anything I sayd, we should thank for the whole team for 
> it's work. I'm sure anybody do all he can.

Thanks! I don't think anyone would misinterpret your tone as harsh, or 
inappropriate. You've very effectively made your case for why you want 
support to continue. I hope that those who've responded have made their 
reasons equally clear for why that is not likely to happen.

Doug

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