Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:22:13 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>, jwpauler@jwpages.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Next release Message-ID: <15444.979186933@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> of "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:10:46 EST." <01011023093805.00498@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>
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> > Actually it says right now on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ > that 4.3 will be available in late March. It seems unusual that such a > precise time would be placed on the release already. I think the date Not really. We schedule the releases for every 4 months, that being 3 a year, and they thus fall on predictable months (the day is a little more loose, usually specified with no more than 2 weeks precision). The schedule is set on a date vs feature basis because the former practice leads to a better track record in getting releases out on a timely basis and because if you want to do things like provide CD media, you need to pre-schedule time with the CD replicators and they don't work to fuzzy schedules. That said, a release has been known to be delayed or even cancelled due to some major problem, but that's a rare event and one which will hopefully remain so. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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