From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 6 8:58:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB7914A1A; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA52131; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA57558; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:58:21 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alex Cc: Eivind Eklund , freebsd-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th Message-ID: <20000106085821.C1417@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200001060927.UAA03779@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> <38746AEC.167EB0E7@elischer.org> <20000106122256.B13922@bitbox.follo.net> <38748CE5.AD1AD786@freenet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38748CE5.AD1AD786@freenet.co.uk>; from ak@freenet.co.uk on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:39:01PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 12:39:01PM +0000, Alex wrote: > I vote for: > > - IPv6 and the tools to go with it (Yoshinobu Inoue) > - Better laptop (PC card) support, possibly Cardbus (Warner Losh) > - Improved soundcard support: right now newpcm is broken in a number of > ways (Cameron Grant), possibly new MIDI (Seigo Tanimura) > - Reorganised source tree (e.g. filesystems must go into /sys/fs, etc.) *BUT* we have no commitment on how much time the volunteer developers of these items can give in the next X days. With out time estimates, how long do we wait?? It is simply a fact of live in a volunteer project such as FreeBSD the scheduling that many of us are used to does not work. Holding up 4.0-R in face if this, just isn't useful. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message