Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:54:35 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Subject: Re: Release schedules Message-ID: <18714.64571.839294.10637@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20081112152121.GA1004@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <200811121259.25046.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <20081112120147.GA62386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081112152121.GA1004@phenom.cordula.ws>
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cpghost writes: > > next release: when it's done. > > Actually, it's not so bad that the PRERELEASE phase is so long: > in this time, more bugs are being fixed that would have normally > been lingering in the pr database. The problem is not technical; no one has a problem with the idea right is better than sooner. The problem is administrative: failure to create reasonable expectations among the general user community, and particularly failure let people know when those expectations - for necessary and sufficient reasons - need to change. Case at hand: given that 7.1-Beta2 has been pending for (as far as I can tell) nearly two months (or maybe more) and - based on a casual reading of current@ - is in no danger of happening soon, the information at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html about a November release for 7.1 is clearly a no-op. Yes, the page says "approximate" and "subject to slippage". But those should be measured against the context of an otherwise realisitic schedule; "early November" slips to "late November", not "April". (If this sees a bit of a hot button ... some of us are flashing on the many months of "almost got it" that preceded 5.0.) Robert Huff
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