From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 16 13:37:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31561151FC for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:37:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.8.8) id NAA13360; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:37:14 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda13358; Tue Mar 16 13:36:56 1999 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA08893; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:36:56 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903162136.NAA08893@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdps8887; Tue Mar 16 13:36:25 1999 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cschuber To: rich@dynamite.org Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people think of May 1st for a 3.2 release date? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:59:07 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:36:25 -0800 From: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , "Rich Wood" writes: > On 16 Mar 99, at 18:59, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > And last week here in Holland for a friend of mine who has a WC subscriptio > n > > for them > > Talking of subscriptions, issuing releases too often may put people off > subscriptions as it could start to get expensive. > > As people have pointed out, it takes a while to distribute CD's, as it > stands, if 3.2 was to be released on May 1st, it would give 3.1-RELEASE a > useable life of about 6 weeks[1] before 3.2-RELEASE was `created`. > > I'm not saying that we should hold off on 3.2 just because 3.1 is still > new, but I feel there must be a compelling reason (major security fix, > important new features etc.) to release it so soon after people get their > 3.1 CD's. > > [1] For those of us outside USA. My CD only arrived on 13/3/99 I agree that this might be generally true, however I understand that there are a lot of fixes that have gone into 3.1 since its release. If this is a "once in a blue moon" event, I don't think people would mind. I wouldn't mind getting all of the fixes. > > Rich > > -- > rich@dynamite.org > If that's what they call normal, I'd rather be insane. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message