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[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 23 September 2008 04:42:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote:
> John, we're already committed to upgrade to 6.3 (since it will  
> currently be supported longer than 6.4).  6.2 support isn't part of  
> this conversation, it has entirely revolved around support periods for  
> upcoming releases.

Then replace 6.2 with 6.3 in my comments.  Granted, there's nothing to do with 
6.3 until it is EOL'd, but you should still get the general idea.  I picked 
6.2 just to have a specific example to work with.

> On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:10 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Jo, so it seems to me that you could just start by maintaining your  
> > own set of
> > extended support patches for the FreeBSD releases you care about.  I  
> > don't
> > think you have to be a committer or secteam@ member to do this.  It  
> > does mean
> > that you might not be able to fix a bug in, say, 6.2 at the same  
> > exact time
> > the advisory goes out at first, but you could take the patch from the
> > advisory and apply it to your local 6.2 tree and then update your  
> > "cumulative
> > patch" (would probably want to use some sort of source code control  
> > for this
> > where you basically branch from FreeBSD X.Y where X.Y is a vendor  
> > branch of
> > sorts).  That would let you build the "street cred", as it were, to  
> > be able
> > to get the patches directly into FreeBSD more easily.
> >
> > To start with it is probably going to be a bit slow as far as  
> > getting things
> > committed directly to FreeBSD proper as it means finding a committer  
> > who has
> > the time to test and review your patch and then commit it.  However,
> > the "Unofficial FreeBSD 6.2 Patchset" can be updated more quickly  
> > since it is
> > something that would be under your control.  Also, doing this will  
> > give you
> > insight into exactly what is required to support a release after it  
> > is EOL'd
> > in a much more direct fashion than an e-mail thread.
> >
> > -- 
> > John Baldwin
> 
> -- 
> Jo Rhett
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> and other randomness
> 
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John Baldwin