From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 13 6: 3:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from camtech.net.au (goliath.camtech.net.au [203.5.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23B3B14F6E for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 06:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@camtech.net.au) Received: from dialup-ad-14-32.camtech.net.au ([203.55.242.160]) by camtech.net.au ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:33:48 +1030 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:34:28 +1030 (CST) From: Matthew Thyer X-Sender: matt@localhost Reply-To: thyerm@camtech.net.au To: current@freebsd.org Subject: RELEASE timelines Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the big rush to 4.0-RELEASE ? With all the new functionality and recent changes there are some things that need to be bedded in (I'm thinking newpcm and ATA). Maybe I'm saying this because my SB16 PnP has only just been fixed and my CD-ROM drive doesn't work under the ATA driver (I'm about to try the most recent fixes so dont yell at me yet) but maybe I'm saying this because things seem a bit rushed. Consider the 2.2 stream that went through many more releases (counting 2.2.1 -> 2.2.8). Using that yardstick you'd expect 4.0 to stay in development until 3.7 is released. I know 7 releases of the 2.2 stream was considerred a few too many but surely we can hold 4.0 back a bit longer considerring the age of some of the code. -- /=======================================================================\ | Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au | \=======================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message