[OpenAFS-port-freebsd] Re: when to desupport old FreeBSD versions

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:17:42 -0400 (EDT), Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> said:

> At this point, I think I'm okay with declaring 7.x and older unsupported,
> but since there is an 8.x release still supported I would prefer to keep
> around the support for 8.0 along with it, as that's most of the
> conditionals anyway.

> Does anyone else have thoughts on the matter?

FreeBSD 8.4 will have security support until June 30 of next year.  I
think a reasonable policy for any third-party developer like OpenAFS
would be to continue support for perhaps a year after that, to allow
users some time to finish migration.  If a user is unable to upgrade
past 8.4 for some reason, it's pretty unlikely (although possible)
that the user would be able to upgrade OpenAFS, but I suggest that
support should remain for the lifetime of whichever OpenAFS stable
branch is current on 2015-06-30.

-GAWollman