From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 7 01:44:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28626 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28606 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 01:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA04153; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 18:49:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808070849.SAA04153@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Pthreads woes revisited. In-Reply-To: <13770.43121.617719.400946@compound.east> from Tony Kimball at "Aug 7, 98 02:15:47 am" To: alk@pobox.com Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 18:49:55 +1000 (EST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Kimball wrote: > Ouch! Like some (many?) others, in my world the whole value > of 3.0 is wrapt in SMP and kernel threads. Nothing else counts, > comparatively speaking. These "many others" don't seem to contribute to making these things happen. > : It is better to get > : 3.0 to a stable state to limit the flak from people who don't (won't) > : understand why 2.2.8 will come out after 3.0. > > How about delaying the release long enough to include the significant > added value, thereby reducing the gap between 2.2.8 and 3.0, thereby > reducing the flak from the quarter you posit, as well as the flak from > my own kindred spirits? I doubt that introducing further delays would create a flurry of activity aimed at providing added value. All that would happen is that the same value would be delivered later. [ Anybody reading this who wants to prove me wrong was 9 weeks to submit a PR and nag a committer to get it worked on. The PR should contain patches relative to -current, though. ] -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message