From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 22:26:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76520106564A for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:26:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from mail.netconsonance.com (mail.netconsonance.com [198.207.204.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFCC8FC13 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:26:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) Received: from 4.151.178.10.in-addr.arpa (m420e36d0.tmodns.net [208.54.14.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.netconsonance.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m57MQCZ8063257; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@netconsonance.com) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netconsonance.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.007 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.007 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44, AWL=-0.184, TVD_RCVD_IP=1.617] Message-Id: <1B48EFB7-C3CB-4568-BB86-7CF54A785B94@netconsonance.com> From: Jo Rhett To: Dick Hoogendijk In-Reply-To: <20080608000008.00004a91@westmark> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:26:06 -0700 References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org> <6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com> <200806050248.59229.max@love2party.net> <20080605083907.GD1028@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <902E9703E6E50776A17E9F92@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <20080605220244.GP1028@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <34E9F0D46D7B9F45EDA38F4C@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <48488D1A.9070105@kutulu.org> <52E265BB-BBB1-439D-B375-D6C6AA04697C@netconsonance.com> <20080608000008.00004a91@westmark> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 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, 07 Jun 2008 22:26:23 -0000 On Jun 7, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > You are in fact saying 6.3-RELEASE should not have been released at > the > time it was. It should have been posponed 'till some open bugs were > solved. I agree with you that a RELEASE is supposed to be more > mature / > stable then a development version. And you state it is -not- That's direct criticism that I am not willing to make of the contributors. I'm sure everyone did the best they could, and with what they knew at the time. I'm saying that now, in retrospect, it doesn't appear to be a stable release. Forcing everyone to upgrade to a unstable release doesn't seem likely to help improve the situation. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness