From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 13 18:47:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dewey.paralynx.net (dewey.mindlink.net [204.174.16.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A8237B420 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:47:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [198.69.4.139] (helo=rcreighton.org) by dewey.paralynx.net with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #8) id 17IgBc-0004MV-00; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:47:36 -0700 Message-ID: <3D08E8B6.2090203@rcreighton.org> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:47:18 +0000 From: Randall Creighton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 You are of course, right. but I am curious. The md5 checksums exist for all of the isos. This means they have been completed already. The fact that they are not uploading them is beginning to worry me, not for any other reason than I did get the 4.6-mini and was going to install it. If they have found some late breaking info that would mean a postponement, then they should email the announcement list. Randy Wayne Pascoe wrote: > 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. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message