Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:59:30 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve Friedrich <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Plea to core team Message-ID: <19981110095930.H499@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199811091737.MAA31468@laker.net>; from Steve Friedrich on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 12:36:08PM -0500 References: <199811091737.MAA31468@laker.net>
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On Monday, 9 November 1998 at 12:36:08 -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: > I wonder if anyone subscribed to -questions besides me thinks that the > 3.0R shouldn't have been made generally available. It is allowing > total morons to destroy FreeBSD's reputation due to their incompetence. > 3.0R SHOULD be only installed by people with a freakin clue. Not > total newbies. It has resulted in a tremendous amount of noise on this > forum, because these newbies think they should be running the latest > and greatest. They aren't reading the release notes or anything else. > Please don't let them continue. Make 3.0R available only to those > willing to certify: > > 1. They are NOT using it in a production environment > 2. They have extensive FreeBSD experience > 3. They have extensive Unix System Admin experience > 4. They realize 3.X is not yet supported > 5. They are not Microsoft agents looking for an opportunity to bash any > non-Microsoft system > > 3.0R is NOT ready for prime time, i.e., it's not ready for newbies. People have been using -CURRENT for production systems for years. Heck, I do it myself :-) Admittedly, though, you need to understand what you're doing. I was not completely happy with the decision to release 3.0-RELEASE. Maybe we should have called it 3.0-PRERELEASE, or 3.0-RESTRICTED, or some such, just to make it clear that we didn't expect the same stability from a .0 release as we would from others. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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