From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 19 13:50:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12339 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:50:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.2.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12327 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:50:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id OAA25149; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:18:24 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199803192118.OAA25149@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' To: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 14:18:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: mvh@netcom.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803190040.TAA16794@spooky.rwwa.com> from Robert Withrow at "Mar 18, 98 07:40:18 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > My advice, which I'm sure everyone will ignore, is for Jordan and > friends to 'fess up and admit that the current state of "stable" isn't > stable enough for cutting a CD release, re-freeze now and only allow > bug fixes for the next 30-45 days (including fixes for the slice > stuff) and *then* cut the release. I'm pretty sure everyone *buying* > the CD's would rather a delay than [another] less-than-completely-stable > release. I agree with moving the release date, and considering this the beginning of the freeze. > I've been trying to propogate a CD release within my company for the last > 1.5 years, and so far every release requires patches and hacks to get it > to work correctly. I understand that it is free software, but it > seems to me, as it seems to the above author, that if the release were > just cut 1 month earlier or later it would be a much better story. What we've done is to cut our own CDs on our burner, after allowing the dust to settle. Ours read 2.2.6-Anasazi (or whatever is appropriate). The Anasazi means approximately, "Same as release, but with bug fixes." -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message