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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 1999 16:44:11 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.5-stable ? 
Message-ID:  <5595.939771851@localhost>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 02:47:04 %2B0900." <38037418.BC112172@newsguy.com> 

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> Frankly, a year and a half is way too much wait for a system to
> become stable. Hopefully, the shorter development cycle of 4.0 will
> result in a 4.x line getting stabilized much faster.

I agree.  I also suspect that 4.0 will branch in a much more timely
fashion than 3.0 did.  We learned some hard lessons with 3.0's
schedule.

- Jordan

> 
> All of the above is IMHO, though.
> 
> All that said, 3.x-stable is quite reliable. Most problem reports I
> have seen turned out to be operator errors, with a few known trouble
> spots (nfs, out of mbufs panic). The releases have been cursed with
> annoying problems getting past unnoticed, but they have been related
> to installation, not reliability, and a simple wait of a couple of
> weeks and use of Errata mitigates it.
> 
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
> dcs@newsguy.com
> dcs@freebsd.org
> 
> 	"I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a
> conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of
> allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself
> a little more?"
> 
> 
> 
> 
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