Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:05:07 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Subject: Re: Why 7.0 is so late ? Message-ID: <20071018190507.GB57252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20071018180902.GB28392@demeter.hydra> References: <20071017133352.GE67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg> <20071017165423.G89276@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <13413b8f0710170920t5e5a03f9tcd703e6239db0296@mail.gmail.com> <20071017192628.GA1238@kobe.laptop> <20071018180902.GB28392@demeter.hydra>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:09:02PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:26:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > Traditionally, "BSD" has released stuff "when it was ready" and not when > > some marketting team decided that they wanted to release. The FreeBSD > > team has made genuine efforts towards changing this to a more timely > > release schedule (18 months for a new "major" release), but there have > > been some important bits of kernel and userland which were a bit > > unstable and/or were in development until now. > > I'd much rather that a RELEASE version is as stable as it can reasonably > be made than that it arrives "on time". Seriously. As far as I'm > concerned, take as long as you must to make it as stable as you can. > Sooner is better, all else being equal, but if stability is sacrificed in > any way then all else isn't equal. > > New versions should fix things and provide updated functionality, not > just meet a schedule. It's not like some kind of sales quota needs to be > met. Yup. I think that is the way all of us feel. Just a little more of a clue for the rest of us on how things are coming would be helpful. ////jerry > -- > CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] > Kent Beck: "I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I > just didn't know it would be called Ruby." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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