From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 14:20:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EAD16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:20:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (alt.aurema.com [203.217.18.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14BA343D45 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:20:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vance@aurema.com) Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.sw.oz.au with ESMTP id i21MKp8O013664; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:20:51 +1100 (EST) Received: (from vance@localhost) by smtp.sw.oz.au id i21MKof0013663; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:20:50 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 09:20:50 +1100 From: Christopher Vance To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20040301222050.GA10561@aurema.com> References: <20040301011147.GE20621@aurema.com> <4042BE2C.3070703@mindspring.com> <20040301044252.GD14086@aurema.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP!!! USB MFC committed.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:20:53 -0000 On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:11:39PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >Well, I can say that there are a lot of developers who are very >interested in getting 5.x-STABLE going, if for no other reason >than we can start work on the next set of really-major changes. >We can't start on 6.0-current until there's a 5.x-stable, and >at this point 5.x-current is pretty much off-limits for really >major (disruptive) changes. > >So, we really do understand your interest in getting a 5.x-stable. >It is very likely that 5.3-release will be the start of the stable >branch. We are probably not ready to make a public promise about >that just yet, but certainly a lot of developers have their own >private vows that "this is going to be it!". Thanks to all. -- Christopher Vance