Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:05:56 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, grog@lemis.com, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 -release ? Message-ID: <199712032305.PAA08728@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <34854A60.829AB149@freebsd.org> (dyson@FreeBSD.ORG)
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* From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> * I tend to agree with the position that we have more time to go before * 3.0 is ready... Those users who really really want SMP, kernel * threads, AIO or whatever fancy new feature that is going into * -current will have to realize that the code is pre-release and * immature, and tracking the code will require more effort than code * that is released and stabilized. You are absolutely right. But only problem is that there are pretty stable things (like 2-way SMP) as well as definitely work on progress stuff (AIO to pick the latest example). Since we only have one -current, we can't cut 3.0R until everything stabilizes. Which is a real shame, because we are losing the market share right now to those who already offer SMP in their releases. No, I don't know what we should do. We definitely don't want to branch the tree any further, and merging SMP into 2.2-stable is out of question. It's just frustrating to me (who's pretty much an outsider when it comes to /usr/src) to watch the 3.0 release date slip and slip while there is already quite release-quality work in there. Satoshi
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