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Date:      Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:47:17 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: R-Day, 15th October, 1998 (BST or similar ;-) 
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19981014204717.0107000c@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <29893.908404685@time.cdrom.com>
References:  <Your message of "Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:02:37 BST."             <36251F7D.FF67BC99@tdx.co.uk>

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At 03:38 PM 10/14/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> In less than 2 hours it will be the 15th of October BST...
>
>My release target date is in PST. :)
>
>> Jordan has been quiet the last couple of days... (rather ominously
perhaps)?
>
>Naw, just rather busy...

Wonder why. ;)

>> The questions are? 1. Is 'it' still happening (3.0-Release), and 2. What's
>> happening? (with respect to 3.0-Release)
>
>1. I'm still trying to hit my target time of October 15th, 20:00 PST
>   for putting down the release tag, after which I'll announce the
>   end of code free^H^H^H^Hslush and people can dive back into -current
>   with all their experimental goodies.
>
>2. We've been known to slip our dates in the past, and if the tree
>   is broken or otherwise "unready" at that time, it may not happen
>   on the 15th.  I'll send mail either way when the tag is going down
>   or has been postponed.

One wonders if Jordan has been busy on working on the bootloader issue...
Have yet to hear more than "we should" or "we shouldn't" and kernel ELF vs
aout (ad naseum - which certainly isn't going to happen) are getting rather
stale.

Was anything definitive decided?  Or is it going to wait for the next release?


Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking
jeff@mountin.net

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