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

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<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.

I agree; there's no reason to remove support from the stable branch.

That all sounds reasonable for me; thanks for writing it down.

-Ben