Bug 67651

Comment 1 Hiroki Sato 2004-06-07 05:46:07 UTC

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I'll handle this.

	In addition to the previous changes, section 5 (below) should 
be revised, in light of the revised plans at 
<http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/announce.html>:

>FreeBSD 4.10 will become the first "Errata Branch". Release 
>branches for previous versions of FreeBSD would only have  critical 
>security fixes applied. With FreeBSD 4.10 the scope of  fixes will 
>be expanded to include local Denial of Service fixes  as well as 
>other significant and well-tested fixes that may not  represent 
>security issues.
>
>The current plans are for one more FreeBSD 4.X release which  will 
>be FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE. It is expected the upcoming  FreeBSD 5.3 
>release will have reached the maturity level most  users will be 
>able to migrate to 5.X. Most developer resources  continue to be 
>devoted to the 5.X branch.


						Chris Pepper

>5 Plans for the 4-STABLE Branch
>
>It is important to note that even though releases are being made in 
>the 5.X series, support for 4.X releases will continue for some 
>time. Indeed, FreeBSD 4.8 was released two months after 5.0, in 
>April 2003, followed by 4.9, in October 2003. Future releases from 
>the 4-STABLE branch (if any) will depend on several factors. The 
>most important of these is the existence and stability of the 
>5-STABLE branch. If CURRENT is not sufficiently stable to allow the 
>creation of a 5-STABLE branch, this may require and permit more 
>releases from the 4-STABLE branch. Until the last declared release 
>on the 4-STABLE branch, new features may be merged from HEAD at the 
>discretion of developers, subject to existing release engineering 
>policies.
>
>To some extent, the release engineering team (as well as the 
>developer community as a whole) will take into account user demand 
>for future 4-STABLE releases. This demand, however, will need to be 
>balanced with release engineering resources (particularly 
>developers' time, computing resources, and mirror archive space). We 
>note that in general, the FreeBSD community (both users and 
>developers) has shown a preference for moving forward with new 
>features in the 5.X branch and beyond, due to the difficulty 
>involved in backporting (and maintaining) new functionality in 4.X.
>
>The Security Officer Team <security-officer@FreeBSD.org> will 
>continue to support releases made from the 4-STABLE branch in 
>accordance with their published policies, which can be found on the 
>Security page on the FreeBSD web site. Generally, the two most 
>recent releases from any branch will be supported with respect to 
>security advisories and security fixes. At its discretion, the team 
>may support other releases for specific issues.
>
>At this point, the release engineering team has no specific plans 
>for future releases from the 4-STABLE development branch. It seems 
>likely that any future releases (if any) from this branch will be 
>lightweight, ``point'' releases. These will probably carry 4.9.X 
>version numbers, to indicate that they are not intended to provide 
>large amount of new functionality compared to 4.9-RELEASE. In 
>general, these releases will emphasize security fixes, bug fixes, 
>and device driver updates (particularly to accommodate new hardware 
>easily supported by existing drivers). Major new features 
>(especially those requiring infrastructure support added in 5.X) 
>will probably not be added in these releases.
-- 
Chris Pepper:               <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>
Rockefeller University:     <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>

Even though this may have been relevant in mid 2004, I suppose it is no
longer. I Propose to close this issue.

Comment 4 Hiroki Sato 2005-12-16 14:48:53 UTC

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Sorry for the late response.  The proposed changes were committed 
when this PR was submitted.  Thank you for your submission!