From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 3 08:47:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06014 for current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA06002; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA06312; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:46:52 +0200 (MET DST) To: Michael Smith cc: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth), jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Food for thought In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Sep 1996 23:37:39 +0930." <199609031407.XAA28427@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 17:46:51 +0200 Message-ID: <6310.841765611@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199609031407.XAA28427@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael Smith writes: >> 3) The extremely short test cycle for new releases. IMHO, we should already >> have a feature freeze for 2.2 and the leading edge should be planning for >> 2.3. > >Ah, I see an offer of the Release Engineer's hat heading your way. My >advice is, duck. Only if he teams up with Terry as Q/A controller and we have a spare hat! Listen, it's really VERY VERY SIMPLE! We don't promise anything about -current, nothing, absolutely NOTHING! If you have trouble with -current, you'd better find out for your self what they are, and send an email with a patch, or at least >very< precise description to the committer you think is responsible. Otherwise: Get of our back! -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.