From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 7 6: 6:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from puku.zamnet.zm (puku.zamnet.zm [208.224.176.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D01737B403 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 06:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zamnet.zm (thor.zamnet.zm [208.224.176.91]) by puku.zamnet.zm (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f87D2kX89992 for ; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:02:47 +0200 (CAT) (envelope-from daniel@zamnet.zm) Message-ID: <3B98C587.21BD1D11@zamnet.zm> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 15:03:03 +0200 From: Daniel Mpolokoso Organization: ZAMNET Communication Systems Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4 will be delayed until Saturday, the 8th of September References: <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906094830P.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010906224612.I66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906145730E.jkh@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jordan, I'm only about half-way through the download of 4.4-RC4 and as such, welcome the idea of allowing more time before rolling out the final release. Good decision. Daniel. Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Well, there does appear to be a lot of general feeling that we should > wait, so how would people feel about a push-back to the 14th? That > would put it out next Friday. I'm kinda loath to keep shoving the > release date forward since eventually people will start to wonder > whether or not 4.4 is going to join 5.0 in being delayed by a year, > but if there's a genuine desire to really test all the edge cases then > I'm willing to give users and developers the time they need. > > A corollary to this, however, is that I will NOT be accepting any more > feature submissions to the branch! If you can demonstrate that your > bug fix addresses a regression from 4.3 or applies only to the > documentation then I'll let it in, but I don't want to hear any "well, > since we have another week, can I merge the foo driver?" requests from > anyone. A week for polishing things up I can buy, but not a week to > try to cram in everything that missed the deadline. The branch is now > FROZEN, as in arctic pack ice. > > - Jordan > > From: Nik Clayton > Subject: Re: 4.4 will be delayed until Saturday, the 8th of September > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 22:46:12 +0100 > > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:48:30AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > What length of time would you prefer? > > > > I'd say at least a week. As various others have pointed out, it's going > > to be at least 24-48 hours before interested parties have pulled down > > ISOs from mirrors, burnt CDs, and installed from them. Then it's the > > weekend, when many people have better^Wother things to do, and/or are > > not at their day job when they might have some time to devote to > > FreeBSD. > > > > N > > -- > > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ > > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > > > > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Mpolokoso - Managing Director, Email: daniel@zamnet.zm ZAMNET Communication Systems Limited, Tel: +260-96-763065 / 224665 P.O. Box 38299, Lusaka, Zambia. Fax: +260-1-228076 / 224775 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message