Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:33:49 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com Cc: timcm@umich.edu, drew@planetwe.com, jwpauler@jwpages.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Next release Message-ID: <200101110433.UAA10840@spammie.svbug.com> In-Reply-To: <15444.979186933@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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I'll go even further. Yesterday Apple (http://www.apple.com) anounce the formal release date of March 24, 2001 for OS X. Jessem. On 10 Jan, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >> >> Actually it says right now on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ >> that 4.3 will be available in late March. It seems unusual that such a >> precise time would be placed on the release already. I think the date > > Not really. We schedule the releases for every 4 months, that being 3 > a year, and they thus fall on predictable months (the day is a little > more loose, usually specified with no more than 2 weeks precision). > > The schedule is set on a date vs feature basis because the former > practice leads to a better track record in getting releases out on a > timely basis and because if you want to do things like provide CD > media, you need to pre-schedule time with the CD replicators and they > don't work to fuzzy schedules. > > That said, a release has been known to be delayed or even cancelled > due to some major problem, but that's a rare event and one which will > hopefully remain so. > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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