From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 30 11:46:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA23961 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co ([168.176.15.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA23931 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem17.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.47]) by ohm.ingsala.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA19505; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:43:13 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <33DFA5EB.1766@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:36:59 -0700 From: "Pedro Giffuni S," Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold [it] (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC CC: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD really a project? (introduction to WISE) References: <199707301659.KAA12699@xmission.xmission.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC wrote: > > Pedro Giffuni recently commented, with respect to a > WWW-based project manager: > ... > > Perhaps not. If this is basically a problem tracking and reporting > system, I don't really think we would have to make changes. Whenever > a new release is undertaken, say a 2.2.5 or 3.0, a "project" for that > release would be created. The project would be closed out when a > superceding release comes out -- 2.2.2 closes 2.2.1, etc. > One thing I have always wanted to know are what are the objectives behing each individual release..For example, what was so critical about 3.0 that deserved that great step in the numbering? It had to be something as drastic as the 4.3BSD to 4.4BSD update, but normal users (like me have no way of knowing what will follow or if there really is a "master plan" to rule the world. Of course CVS is great, but it doesn't tell this type of things, nor does it report the state of the project. Pedro. > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com