Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 19:40:18 -0500 From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> To: "Michael V. Harding" <mvh@netcom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'Code Freeze' Message-ID: <199803190040.TAA16794@spooky.rwwa.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 05:11:14 PST." <199803181311.FAA02549@netcom1.netcom.com>
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mvh@netcom.com said: :- The result to a long time CD subscriber like myself is that I have :- _never_ received a FreeBSD CD that is useful to me by itself. Say Haleluja. (And don't go telling me I can return it for a credit. That isn't the point!) My advice, which I'm sure everyone will ignore, is for Jordan and friends to 'fess up and admit that the current state of "stable" isn't stable enough for cutting a CD release, re-freeze now and only allow bug fixes for the next 30-45 days (including fixes for the slice stuff) and *then* cut the release. I'm pretty sure everyone *buying* the CD's would rather a delay than [another] less-than-completely-stable release. I've been trying to propogate a CD release within my company for the last 1.5 years, and so far every release requires patches and hacks to get it to work correctly. I understand that it is free software, but it seems to me, as it seems to the above author, that if the release were just cut 1 month earlier or later it would be a much better story. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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