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I really love FreeBSD but having 3 different PRODUCTION branches is getting insane (10.3, 9.3, 8.4). I only run RELEASE. When I run into production issues, th
by tiffanyh 12y ago
I really love FreeBSD but having 3 different PRODUCTION branches is getting insane (10.3, 9.3, 8.4).
I only run RELEASE.
When I run into production issues, the developers say they have fixed my issue in CURRENT but never release a point update to RELEASE ... means forces me to have to wait until the next MAJOR release for it to be fixed.
Feels like FreeBSD, even though I love all it does, is becoming more and more just for developers.
We need more minor point releases and less major releases.
The following link from 2 years ago is still very applicable today.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-January/037294.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2012-Janu...
- emaste 12y agoI don't follow; fixes making it only into -CURRENT is certainly an issue, but slowing down the major release cadence will make it take even longer for those to reach you. Ensuring fixes make it into release branches is something we need to (and are working to) improve. If you're able, we would very much appreciate community effort in helping to merge and test bugfixes to stable branches. Supporting the FreeBSD Foundation also helps to ensure there are resources to help make this a reality. Any change to major release cadence, minor release cadence, branch lifetime, and access to new features implies a tradeoff against the others, as is clear in reading through the responses in the thread you link.
- farawayea 12y agoFreeBSD's approach to releases is stupid. Releases like 10.1.1, 10.1.2, 9.3.1 and 8.4.1 should be done. Only big vendors have the resources to maintain their own patched systems they can use in production.