From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 16 19:00:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34DB816A436; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:00:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F7143D5C; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:00:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBGJ0XZu058687; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jBGJ0Vts058686; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:00:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:00:31 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Joao Barros Message-ID: <20051216190031.GD58262@thought.org> References: <43A266E5.3080103@samsco.org> <70e8236f0512160659h3379253dw468e5aad3f741002@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <70e8236f0512160659h3379253dw468e5aad3f741002@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:12:48 +0000 Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Release schedule for 2006 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:00:36 -0000 On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:59:09PM +0000, Joao Barros wrote: > On 12/16/05, Scott Long wrote: > > > FreeBSD 7 > > We will start preparing for FreeBSD 7.0 in June 2007. > > > > I'll hopefully update the release engineering pages soon to reflect > > this. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me and the > > rest of the release engineering team. Thanks!ott > > There have been some questions on the lists about what to expect from > release x.y and I personnally have always looked at the TODO list like > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html > For 6.0 I noticed there were more updates on that page for bugs and > their fixes than for features per se. My sugestion, maybe at a first > stage setting the TODO list has it's advantages, one knows what to > expect from a release, it's clearly stated and documented there and > the developers can see their goals. > This is valid for minor and major releases of course. > > How about it? > Are you volunteering to post the TODO lists here on -stable every N months? I think it's a great idea to have some clues about where we're going, or hope to be going. gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix