Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 10:01:32 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, nik@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 will be delayed until Saturday, the 8th of September Message-ID: <3B9A4EEC.9986BA89@tenebras.com> References: <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906094830P.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010906224612.I66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906145730E.jkh@freebsd.org> <p0510101db7bdb965c3a1@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > At 2:57 PM -0700 9/6/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >Well, there does appear to be a lot of general feeling that we should > >wait, so how would people feel about a push-back to the 14th? That > >would put it out next Friday. > > This is probably a prudent idea. I definitely have no time to do > any serious testing until this weekend, and by then it would have > been too late to bother. (not that you need ME to test it! :-). > > >A corollary to this, however, is that I will NOT be accepting any more > >feature submissions to the branch! ... A week for polishing things up > >I can buy, but not a week to try to cram in everything that missed the > >deadline. The branch is now FROZEN, as in arctic pack ice. > > I definitely agree with this. I definitely understand Jordan's comments re: motivating folks to finalize work and check it in -- that's what deadlines are for. But I would support any amount of delay required to meet QA goals. (The ancient definition of BETA is "no more features, only bug fixes" -- we should remember to adhere to *some* life cycle model or other) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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