From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 6 16:33:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09197 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:33:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09168 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 16:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (localhost.softweyr.com [127.0.0.1]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07438; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:32:55 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3579D1A3.3C8110A7@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 17:32:51 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Raynard CC: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.99999? References: <4.0.1.19980604174542.044f7310@mail.lariat.org> <19980605211913.19239@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org James Raynard wrote: > > Now that it has so many things > > that 2.2.6 doesn't, is it time for a 2.9999 release based on the -current > > source tree to wring out the remaining bugs? > > Maybe. I have to admit I worry sometimes about the ever-widening gap > between -stable and -current and how well all the new features in 3.0 are > going to work in the field. > > James (not a member of core) You know, this entire conversation has an eery cloud of "Deja Vu" around it. I'm not sure when it happened last time; it might have been as far ago as 1.1.5.1 - 2.0, or as recent as 2.1.7+ - 2.2, but this same conversation happened with different participants at least once in FreeBSDs past. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message