From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 14:35:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05292 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA05281 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA02890; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:29:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704182129.OAA02890@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:29:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: dennis@etinc.com, nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704181622.KAA21978@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 18, 97 10:22:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 -current....the fact that the release is out of date a week after its 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.