challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

[Jo Rhett]

On Jun 5, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> If its of major concern for you, then allocate some man hours, grab
> the /usr/src/sys diffs between RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE  and
> RELENG_6_3_0_RELEASE.
>
> The others on the list have stated over and over again that they
> haven't seen any issues and would like to know precisely what they
> are.

While I appreciate their concern for the specifics, I think those  
should be addressed in another thread.  This thread was meant to  
question the overall stability issues that pretty much anyone can view  
for themselves in the freebsd-questions/hardware/scsi mailing lists  
and queries in the open bug reports.

> If stability is your main concern then you could throw some resources
> at fixing 6.3 or throw some resources at backporting security fixes to
> 6.2.

I will apparently be backporting the security fixes myself until 6.4  
ships.

> I'm sure noone has an agenda to squish the FreeBSD version you're
> using for any reason other than there aren't enough people
> volunteering / being paid to work on back-porting security fixes.


This is perhaps the real topic that needs to be addressed.  Can we get  
some more details on the issues involved here?

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness