Subject: Re: When NetBSD 4.0?
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/27/2007 11:08:58
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:43:57AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
>> Especially if we stuck to only supporting 2 previous releases with
>> security patches.
>
> Two previous *major* releases; we are currently supporting 4 releases (2.0.
> 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1) with security patches.
True. I thought we were talking about major releases because of the
reasoning that we release when we have something interesting. Releases of
the netbsd-3 branch are interesting, but not THAT interesting. :-) Also
updating within a branch isn't a big job compared to going to a new major
release.
--
Stephen