From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 18:37:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tungsten.btinternet.com (tungsten.btinternet.com [194.73.73.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F2637B42A for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host217-35-7-3.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([217.35.7.3] helo=marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk) by carbon with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 17Ict8-0004i1-00 for FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:16:18 +0100 Received: from [192.168.10.12] (helo=set.home.penguinpowered.org.uk) by marvin.penguinpowered.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17IczP-000493-00 for FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:22:47 +0100 Received: from waynep by set.home.penguinpowered.org.uk with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17Idsy-0000CG-00 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:20:12 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE References: Date: 13 Jun 2002 23:20:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 53 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Annelise Anderson writes > > > Hi. > > > > > > When it will be made I announce it of the launching of the > > > 4.6-release version? > > > > > > In ftp.freebsd.org already it has source to download and the ISO > > > of 4.6-mini and 4.6-disc2 > > > > Patience. Subscribe to freebsd-announce@freebsd.org if you want to be > > notified of it's release. > > It used to be that once a release was tagged, the newvers.sh file was > changed so that it the version would reflect RELEASE and then STABLE. > Now apparently the "security branch" tag exists but not the 4.6-RELEASE > tag. > > Sure, tags get slid. But where's the tag? > > It's nice to be cautious; it's also nice to respond to your customers. I think the patience comment was because in the last two days, there have been at least 3 threads on this list asking when 4.6 will be out. Murray responded to the first one and pointed people to the FreeBSD announce list. He even went so far as to describe the release message process. I see a lot of people here are in a huge rush for 4.6. I have two questions for those people. 1. Would you rather have software that always ships on estimated schedule, or software that is reliable, solid and dependable? I know which one I choose. 2. What is there in 4.6 that you are so desparate for? And if 4.5 is missing this critical feature that you so desparately appear to need, then why not use 4.6-RC ? Be patient people. The release team do a good job under loads of pressure. They would have more time to do their work if they weren't responding to messages asking 'When will it be done?'. If you want it done faster, chip in. Oh, and until you're paying money for a service or product, you're not a customer. We are currently recipients of a benevolent foundation. -- - Wayne Pascoe - http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk/wayne/ Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message