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Date:      Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:50:39 -0700
From:      Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>
To:        Francisco Reyes <freyes@inch.com>
Cc:        "advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: The new toolkit, does it help us to advocate FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <19990911155039.A4944@dub.net>
In-Reply-To: <199909111734.NAA11914@arutam.inch.com>
References:  <199909111734.NAA11914@arutam.inch.com>

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On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:58:36 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> >> come out closer to the release of the CDs?  (ie 3.3Toolkit and 3.3
> >> closer together, not 3.3 toolkit a week before 3.4)
> >
> >Actually, we're doing our best to de-couple them from releases now
> >since the two don't get scheduled all that coincidently these days. :)
> 
> Why not have the toolkits in the middle of the releaseas?
> This would be breat for those that want to follow stable, but not deal
> with cvsup or downloads.
> It will also boost revenuews at Walnut Creek since people may subscribe
> to both. If they releases were at the same or near time then people
> will commonly only choose one or the other.

This was sort of the original plan. Some replication probs with the new
toolkit have delayed it from getting out until now. I think we're
talking about revamping the intent and release schedule for the toolkit
in the near future.

-Bill

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