Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:28:33 -0500 From: "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release schedules Message-ID: <4ad871310812121028m4e368da4n69e06d592e312eb0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <18754.42851.295211.155980@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <200811121259.25046.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <20081112120147.GA62386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <f2c294a10812120920l4d11bebfgd5c9208336b075b@mail.gmail.com> <18754.42851.295211.155980@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > "When it's ready" used to be the scheduling principle. > Then came 5.0 debacle: behind schedule big-time (and arguably > not ready when it went out the door). > I remember discussion afterwards, where there seemed to be > agreement there ought to be a more-or-less regular schedule of major > releases every two years (plus or minus) with minor releases every > few months. > Looking at "www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html", that's > getting stretched. The RC-1 announcement for 7.1, originally > scheduled for early September, is now listed as last week ... and > didn't actually happen. (Unless I missed the memo.) > The RC-1 announcement for 7.1 did come out last week (check the stable@ archives). I personally would rather wait for quality than pushed quantity. -- Glen Barber "If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." --Scott Adams
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