From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 1 02:08:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA23342 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 02:08:39 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA23329 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 02:08:34 -0700 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <19405-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 19:08:23 +1000 Received: from orion.devetir.qld.gov.au by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with ESMTP id TAA24351; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 19:13:05 +1000 Received: by orion.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-0.3) id TAA26135; Fri, 1 Sep 1995 19:08:02 +1000 Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 19:08:02 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Message-Id: <199509010908.TAA26135@orion.devetir.qld.gov.au> To: Robert Withrow cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: Test/Release cycle. Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert Withrow wrote: >Something that bothers me is the (to me at least) unbelivably >short 12 day Test/release time for 2.0.5. The Alpha was released >and 12 days later 2.0.5 was released. > >I wonder if I am alone in thinking that that is *way* too short >of a time? You must not be aware of the introduction of the -stable and -current streams. Release times in the past have been fairly disorganised times. Many people (all volunteers) were under a lot of pressure. I'm glad I was not a cog in those wheels. The new scheme has 2.2 under construction while 2.1 is being tidied and polished. When 2.1 is immaculate, it will be released, and 2.2 will become -stable, while 2.3 will be created as -current. I for one am impressed with the dedication of the core team to this parallel development system. It requires a lot of extra work, and they aren't the ones that benefit. We are. I expect an excellent 2.1 (and up) will result from this system. Stephen McKay.