From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Sep 11 15:50:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [204.188.6.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D2A414FA7 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:50:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unfurl@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 5024 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Sep 1999 22:50:39 -0000 Date: 11 Sep 1999 15:50:39 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:50:39 -0700 From: Bill Swingle To: Francisco Reyes Cc: "advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: The new toolkit, does it help us to advocate FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990911155039.A4944@dub.net> References: <199909111734.NAA11914@arutam.inch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: <199909111734.NAA11914@arutam.inch.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:58:36 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >> come out closer to the release of the CDs? (ie 3.3Toolkit and 3.3 > >> closer together, not 3.3 toolkit a week before 3.4) > > > >Actually, we're doing our best to de-couple them from releases now > >since the two don't get scheduled all that coincidently these days. :) > > Why not have the toolkits in the middle of the releaseas? > This would be breat for those that want to follow stable, but not deal > with cvsup or downloads. > It will also boost revenuews at Walnut Creek since people may subscribe > to both. If they releases were at the same or near time then people > will commonly only choose one or the other. This was sort of the original plan. Some replication probs with the new toolkit have delayed it from getting out until now. I think we're talking about revamping the intent and release schedule for the toolkit in the near future. -Bill -- -=| --- B i l l S w i n g l e --- http://www.dub.net/ -=| unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message