Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:30:35 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the union, 1999. Message-ID: <57689.916090235@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:01:59 PST." <199901110701.XAA87169@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> 3.0 was not meant to be evangelised. Read the release materials. Yes, just to clarify this, we were indeed very much worried about the stability of 3.0 and were more concerned about compromising our reputation for robust behavior than we were about getting PR for 3.0. Was this a tactical mistake? Maybe, and only time will tell, but I still think that while you're doing well it's a good idea to stick to what you know, and what we know best is being conservative and always underselling, to a certain degree, our new technology until we're more sure of its applicability to production environments. Ideally, I'd like to see the convergence of these two goals occur at the point where we have enough personnel to both do exciting new features and test them to the point where we're confident of them. There is still plenty of time for volunteer developers to join us before 4.0 comes out! :-) > > Someone at the online end of either CMP publications or IDG (I forget which ) > > was actively looking for an official FreeBSD mouthpiece the week after 3.0 > > came out, and they couldn't find anyone. Nada. Actaully, just to second Mike's assertion that they didn't try very hard, I also contacted them from Holland and gave them contact information there. I never even got a reply to my email. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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