From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 19:07:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C26B16A46B for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:07:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8B013C455 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:07:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9IJ57PN057309; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:05:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l9IJ57fr057308; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:05:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:05:07 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071018190507.GB57252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20071017133352.GE67677@pcjas.obspm.fr> <47161B5D.9050002@pacific.net.sg> <20071017165423.G89276@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <13413b8f0710170920t5e5a03f9tcd703e6239db0296@mail.gmail.com> <20071017192628.GA1238@kobe.laptop> <20071018180902.GB28392@demeter.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071018180902.GB28392@demeter.hydra> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: Why 7.0 is so late ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:07:23 -0000 On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:09:02PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:26:28PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > Traditionally, "BSD" has released stuff "when it was ready" and not when > > some marketting team decided that they wanted to release. The FreeBSD > > team has made genuine efforts towards changing this to a more timely > > release schedule (18 months for a new "major" release), but there have > > been some important bits of kernel and userland which were a bit > > unstable and/or were in development until now. > > I'd much rather that a RELEASE version is as stable as it can reasonably > be made than that it arrives "on time". Seriously. As far as I'm > concerned, take as long as you must to make it as stable as you can. > Sooner is better, all else being equal, but if stability is sacrificed in > any way then all else isn't equal. > > New versions should fix things and provide updated functionality, not > just meet a schedule. It's not like some kind of sales quota needs to be > met. Yup. I think that is the way all of us feel. Just a little more of a clue for the rest of us on how things are coming would be helpful. ////jerry > -- > CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] > Kent Beck: "I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I > just didn't know it would be called Ruby." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"