From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 10:11:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087FD16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:11:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E77C43D2D for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i21IBfNY025724; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:11:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040301044252.GD14086@aurema.com> References: <20040301011147.GE20621@aurema.com> <4042BE2C.3070703@mindspring.com> <20040301044252.GD14086@aurema.com> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:11:39 -0500 To: Christopher Vance From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP!!! USB MFC committed.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:11:52 -0000 At 3:42 PM +1100 3/1/04, Christopher Vance wrote: >On Sun, Feb 29, 2004, Richard Coleman wrote: >>Keeping the code bases closer together will probably make >>development easier, not harder. Also, this USB code will >>now be tested on more hardware before the release of 4.10 >>or 5.3. ... >> >>Seems like a win/win to me. > >Okay: that leaves me a happy little vegemite. :-) > >[I had just been growing concerned that 5-STABLE was slipping >into the next decade...] Well, I can say that there are a lot of developers who are very interested in getting 5.x-STABLE going, if for no other reason than we can start work on the next set of really-major changes. We can't start on 6.0-current until there's a 5.x-stable, and at this point 5.x-current is pretty much off-limits for really major (disruptive) changes. So, we really do understand your interest in getting a 5.x-stable. It is very likely that 5.3-release will be the start of the stable branch. We are probably not ready to make a public promise about that just yet, but certainly a lot of developers have their own private vows that "this is going to be it!". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu