It concerns all produces created from the STABLE branch include
releases. We're aiming to begin discussions starting around the first
of the year.
-- Brooks
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 03:47:07PM -0800, Roger Marquis
wrote:> FYI re potential cuts to STABLE long-term support. Does this affect the
> RELEASE branch as well? Anyone know where this is being discussed? The
> announcement mentions community feedback but that seems unlikely given
> there has been no mention of it on the freebsd-security list.
>
> Roger Marquis
>
>
> >Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:04:48 -0400
> >From: FreeBSD Core Team Secretary <core-secretary at FreeBSD.org>
> >To: freebsd-announce at freebsd.org
> >Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Interim support guarantee for FreeBSD 12
> >
> >Dear FreeBSD community,
> >
> >The Core Team, in consultation with Release Engineering, the Security
> >Team, and Port Manager has decided that we need to reevaluate the
5-year
> >support of stable branches starting with stable/12. A changed security
> >landscape, increased toolchain velocity, and shorter support windows
for
> >our upstream components necessitate this reevaluation.
> >
> >We will be leading discussions on updating our support model, with the
> >goal of making the model sustainable for the Project. These
> >discussions, which will include opportunities for community feedback,
> >will be complete by March 31, 2019.
> >
> >Regardless of the outcome of the discussions, we guarantee support for
> >the stable/12 branch for at least 18 months, or at least 6 months after
> >13.0 is released, whichever is later. Again, these are minimum
> >durations for the stable/12 branch support and they will not be
reduced.
> >
> >After these discussions are complete, there will be a revised statement
> >about the stable/12 branch lifetime.
> >
> >Release Engineering, the Security Team, Port Manager, and the Core Team
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