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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:29:56 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        dennis@etinc.com, nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...)
Message-ID:  <199704182129.OAA02890@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704181622.KAA21978@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 18, 97 10:22:27 am

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> > I'm just getting tired of getting hit in the nuts for not supporting
> > -current....the fact that the release is out of date a week after its
> > out is a very bad thing and really needs to change...
> 
> That's complete and utter BS.  2.2 had a 8 week release cycle, so you
> had two months from the time the start of BETA testing was announced
> until the time it was released to get your product up-to-snuff.

Actually, I can't speak for Dennis, but it would take us that long
to get the project through the AART committee, then through the
budgetting committee, if the 8 weeks happened to start on the wrong
day of the month.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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