From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 26 18:01:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA5D1065672 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F818FC13 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [65.122.17.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6796046B1A; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:01:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:01:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "K.R." In-Reply-To: <4B0E9FBC.1000100@haruhiism.net> Message-ID: References: <20091126042855.11FE71CC0E@ptavv.es.net> <4B0E9FBC.1000100@haruhiism.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's Eating FreeBSD 8? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:01:50 -0000 On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, K.R. wrote: >> 8.0-Release is being distributed to mirrors at this time, so all of the RCs >> and BETAs have been pulled. Some mirrors may have 8.0-RELEASE and I expect >> 8.0 to be announced very shortly. >> >> Note that I am not in any way involved in the release, but I have seen the >> future and it is very near. >> > I'm perfectly sure I downloaded a complete set of 8.0 ISO images off the > official BitTorrent tracker *two* days ago. > > See http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ The release process is highly non-atomic -- from time of tag to time of announcement is a minimum of days and typically at least a week. Some of the things between tag and announcement are the build process, validation, upload to ftp-master, distribution to mirrors, and release announcement/notes/press release chewing. I'm not sure this is a problem, but it's true that it's dragged out a bit more than usual. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge