From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 6 13:32:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (ns1.arch.bellsouth.net [205.152.173.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F75714D52; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:32:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ck@ns1.arch.bellsouth.net) Received: (from ck@localhost) by ns1.arch.bellsouth.net (8.9.1a/goaway) id QAA00481; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:30:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:30:24 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Steve Ames , Matthew Dillon , scanner@jurai.net, Darren Reed , Yoshinobu Inoue , louie@TransSys.COM, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th Message-ID: <20000106163024.G26743@ns1.arch.bellsouth.net> References: <20000106152026.A98222@virtual-voodoo.com> <670.947193259@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <670.947193259@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:14:19PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 10:14:19PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [..] > FreeBSD-4.0 because now the time is right! What's the rush? If we believe that IPv6 is a noteable milestone, then what better time to introduce it and get a "splash" with it than the ".0" major release. Do you really think people will notice much when you introduce new protocol stacks in minor releases (.1, .2, etc)? If you dispute that, perhaps you're due for a routine reality check. Cheers, Chris -- Christian Kuhtz Architecture, BellSouth.net -wk, -hm Atlanta, GA "Speaking for myself only." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message