Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 19:38:24 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please don't hurry Message-ID: <199710260238.TAA16996@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <345260f6.1453370@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from John Kelly at "Oct 25, 97 09:53:03 pm"
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> If several hundred users would pre-subscrible for them, you should be > able to cover the cost of producing and mailing them. > > When you finally have a CD set that needs no more changes, go with > that one, unchanged, as the real production release. Under no > circumstances should you make any changes, even trivial ones, between > the final beta CD and the real production run. The risk of new bugs > introduced by last minute changes is too great. > > I realize this suggestion would extend the beta cycle to three or four > months, perhaps unheard of for FreeBSD, but I would like to see the > final 2.2.X release as near to perfect as possible because it might be > a long time before I'm ready for anything in the 3.X series, even > after it goes stable. > > While it's true that I can always CVSup fixes if the CD has bugs, if > you have a pack of production machines to install and maintain, it > sure is nice to just stick the CD in the drive, install, and be done > with it. Well said. An as a shop that is running production stuff on FreeBSD, I agree completely about stability. That's why we're running FreeBSD instead of Linux, and why we're running 2.1.7 or 2.1-STABLE. > John -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL22) Brother, can you paradigm? 602-953-1392 chad@dcfinc.com chad@anasazi.com crl22@aol.com DCF, Inc. - 14523 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254
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