Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:40:07 +0700 From: vuthecuong <cuongvt@fpt.vn> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd 7 release date :) Message-ID: <46CA2657.5050803@fpt.vn> In-Reply-To: <20070820145255.GA44640@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <46C83C2F.3060105@fpt.vn> <20070819150415.K15146@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20070820004745.GB39765@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <D975E82C-73F7-4FF1-BF95-73A69824ABD2@brooknet.com.au> <20070820145255.GA44640@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:15:10PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: > > >> On 20/08/2007, at 10:47 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> >> >>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:05:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> just for reference only: >>>>> Original release planned date of 7.0 was end of Jul. But now is >>>>> nearly end >>>>> of Aug. >>>>> So Which date you guess 7.0 will be released? :D >>>>> >>>> when it will be ready. if time is more important than quality for >>>> you get >>>> simply get -current. even if not - and you would like help testing >>>> it, >>>> fetch and report problems. >>>> >>> There was obviously no intent to challenge or apply preasure in the >>> question so you don't need to be snippy. If you don't have any >>> useful >>> information or at least information you think might be useful >>> (qualifier >>> for my posts) then don't bother replying - at least not snippy, posts. >>> We can afford to be civil - expecially when a civil question is asked. >>> >>> The person was just noting that the old guesses were no longer >>> operable >>> and hoping that some new best guesses might have been made. We all >>> know these dates are very movable and for very good reasons. No >>> one is >>> pushing for low quality, hurried up junk. But those best guesses by >>> people in the know about how the processes if moving along are helpful >>> for those of use out here in the hinterland trying to make it through >>> each day. >>> >> There was nothing snippy in that post, it was just succinct. By now, >> people in the know have learned that it really will be done "when >> it's done". >> >> > > Read it from the point of view of a person who is not an insider and > is seeking a little help in keeping their FreeBSD life together. > When someone asks for a "guess" and the response sounds more like > 'get out of my face' than anything with useful content, it is snippy. > I could have used a stronger term. > > As I said, we know and even newbies can learn, with considerate > explanitory responses, that no absolute date can realistically > be named - that there is justifiably more concern about quality > than making a particular 'release date'. But some running info > on how it is going is helpful - actually reassuring, to those of > us out of the loop. It needn't be anything elaborate. > > Anyway, the important issue here is refusing to consider the effects > of the response when replying to a posted question, even when it is > a somewhat unenlightened question. > > ////jerry > > Dear all In my question, I not meaned Freebsd release is slow or something like that :D Just want to know it release date for reference and tell it's release date to my friends who are using it also :)
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