[1979] in NetBSD-Development
Re: time to desupport?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Thu Oct 26 00:11:37 2000
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: 26 Oct 2000 00:11:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: Garry Zacheiss's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:06:47 -0400"
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Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> I suggest that we announce the end of this calendar year as the
>> desupport date for both of these platforms, and that we send mail to
>> linux-announce and netbsd-announce stating this soon. Then, as of this
>> coming IAP, we would no longer be obligated to keep build machines of
>> the appropriate platforms around or to provide locker software for these
>> platforms, and would encourage people looking for a PC Athena solution
>> to run I/S Linux Athena, installed with our installer or not as
>> necessary.
This is only two months. While the releases are old, I think it's a
good idea to give people some time, especially some time which isn't
at the end of term, to deal with migrating to a different platform.
Marc
