Bug 274197

Summary: Supported FreeBSD releases, and the FreeBSD support model: resolve inconsistency
Product: Documentation Reporter: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin>
Component: WebsiteAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Open ---    
Severity: Affects Many People CC: minsoochoo0122, re
Priority: --- Flags: grahamperrin: maintainer-feedback? (re)
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
URL: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/blob/70c8a7baf6c51c8c7f0db9ee4fe09fd14d9c1e9a/website/content/en/security/_index.adoc?plain=1#L110
See Also: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273795

Description Graham Perrin 2023-10-01 12:20:58 UTC 
<https://www.freebsd.org/security/#model> begins

> Under the current support model, each major version’s stable branch is 
> explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point release is 
> only supported for three months after the next point release.

The table under <https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup> does not yet show stable/14. So (given what's quoted) the table seems to be outdated, however the table is, at this time, correct.

For things within the page to be consistent with each other, now and in the future: 

* expand what's currently line 110. 

The phrase "first release" seems suitable:

> Under the current support model, each major version’s stable branch is 
> explicitly supported for 5 years from the first release, while each individual 
> point release is only supported for three months after the next point release.

re@ would you like me to prepare a patch file?


Reference
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From the commit message <https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=244852> for bug 273795: 

> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html
> expressed a minimum of five years from the point X.0-RELEASE is released.
Comment 1 Minsoo Choo 2023-11-24 17:53:49 UTC 
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0)
"its first release" sounds better than "the first release".

We can first open a review on <https://reviews.freebsd.org/> and ask the release engineering team for advice.