From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 19:46:44 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 595C316A4ED for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from thenetnow.com (thenetnow.com [69.90.69.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340D813C45D for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpeel@thenetnow.com) Received: from hpeel.ody.ca ([216.240.12.2] helo=GRANT) by constellation.thenetnow.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IibKK-000Hau-3o; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:46:40 -0400 Message-ID: <02ae01c811bf$96d757e0$6501a8c0@GRANT> From: "Grant Peel" To: "Jerry McAllister" , 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> <20071018190507.GB57252@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:46:34 -0400 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 Reply-To: Grant Peel List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:46:44 -0000 DItto DItto Ditto! -also- I wait another two years if it means I can 'upgrade' from 6.2 to 7.0 = (CVS?) without having to restage the whole system!!! -Grant ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jerry McAllister=20 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 Cc: Jerry McAllister=20 Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Why 7.0 is so late ? 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: > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 > --=20 > 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" _______________________________________________ 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" -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Total Control Panel Login =20 To: gpeel@thenetnow.com Block messages from this sender = (blacklist) =20 From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Remove this sender = from my whitelist =20 =20 You received this message because the sender is on your = whitelist. =20