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Re: desupporting old releases

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Fri May 11 11:29:03 2001

Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:28:52 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <20010511112851.F25188@multics.mit.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <200105110024.UAA01506@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>; from jweiss@MIT.EDU on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:24:36PM -0400

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:24:36PM -0400, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> > * Desupport Netbsd-Cruft-Athena yesterday.
> 
> Well, announcing "oh, by the way we already desupported this without
> telling you" seems kinda wrong, but the fact of the matter is that we
> really have stopped supporting it already, and failed to notify
> people.
...
> I'm not really sure what all of this means, but I guess I could live
> with an announcement that NetBSD Athena is desupported effective
> immediately, even if I don't like the idea.

So, I haven't heard anyone oppose this idea. If I am still not hearing
anything by tomorrow then I will write a desupport notice and send it
out to netbsd-announce. Anyone who is interested in being involved in
writing the mail should speak up.

tibbetts

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