From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 30 03:57:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD9016A41F; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:57:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from a.mail.sonic.net (a.mail.sonic.net [64.142.16.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C613543D45; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:57:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: from tomcat.kitchenlab.org (tomcat.kitchenlab.org [64.142.31.107]) by a.mail.sonic.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6U3vPgs022326 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:57:25 -0700 Received: from tomcat.kitchenlab.org (localhost.kitchenlab.org [127.0.0.1]) by tomcat.kitchenlab.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6U3vOBZ062517; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by tomcat.kitchenlab.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j6U3vOl6062516; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: tomcat.kitchenlab.org: bmah set sender to bmah@freebsd.org using -f From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Janet Sullivan In-Reply-To: <42E0788F.50300@bgp4.net> References: <1121917413.4895.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050721113927.T97888@fledge.watson.org> <1E0ACFEC-A232-4818-9175-E6D181D63DA0@snafu.de> <20050722014135.N16902@fledge.watson.org> <42E0788F.50300@bgp4.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-UCAHaKHBzRo9li6AS7nC" Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:57:23 -0700 Message-Id: <1122695843.9650.79.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: Robert Watson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, bmah@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quality of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:57:32 -0000 --=-UCAHaKHBzRo9li6AS7nC Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Janet Sullivan wrote: > I do think some mistakes were made with the release engineering over=20 > 5.x's lifetime, but folks, what's done is done. Recently things do seem=20 > to be headed in a better direction, for which I'm thankful. As one who "was there" for about half of the 5.X releases, I think we did the best we knew how to do at the time, but if we knew then what we know now, there are things we would have handled differently. (The details have been discussed extensively on the lists, by people who are both more knowledgable and more eloquent than me.) > I know the developers don't hear it often enough, but thanks for all you=20 > do. I'm not a programmer, and I currently don't have the funds to=20 > donate to the project, but you do have my heartfelt thanks for still=20 > turning out my favorite OS. You're welcome, and I'm sure I speak for at least a few other developers when I say that you'd be surprised how valuable a "donation" of a few kind words can be. Cheers, Bruce. --=-UCAHaKHBzRo9li6AS7nC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC6vqj2MoxcVugUsMRAmEVAKDe+ciXz/LG/7PfU1C7lP9vp+chZQCg4S9u ZDDLNv9vARAAlLwgyoosn5o= =7ggd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-UCAHaKHBzRo9li6AS7nC--