From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 01:47:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A7816A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:47:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B6D43D46 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:47:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (63-231-187-193.mpls.qwest.net [63.231.187.193]) (authenticated bits=0) by iaces.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8K1lDoC078751 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:47:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ptroot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <432F6A2B.8020202@iaces.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:47:23 -0500 From: Paul Root User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <432F132A.1060200@iaces.com> <432F42BA.8070507@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <432F42BA.8070507@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: swhetzel@gmail.com, "Sandro Noel." , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Eriq Subject: Re: any ideas when 5.5 will be out X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:47:17 -0000 I'm just stating my observations and my decisions on when I upgraded to a major revision. I started this back in the early 2.x.x days. I believe 2.2.1 is my first set of CDs. And I still have most all of them. I also put in the caveot that a lot of work is being concentrated on 6.x so times could be shorter. Personally, I may put 6.0 on a test machine, but I won't put it in production. I don't work that way. I will go to 5.5, I'm sure, on my servers. I update from source fairly regularly. And that was the original question: "Why would 5.5 come out after 6.0?" Scott Long wrote: > Paul T. Root wrote: > >> In the past, x.0 releases are meant for the adventurous >> not the production oriented. >> >> I never go before x.1. And I skipped 3.x completely. >> I just got my final server from 4.11 to 5.4 in July. >> >> 6.x is probably still 9-12 months away from prime time. >> But that's just a guess on my part. I do know that they >> are pushing on it harder than they did for 5.0. >> >> Sandro Noel. wrote: >> > > 6.0 is indeed receiving quite a bit of testing and bugfixing. It's > a bit presumptuous to make public claims that it's "9-12 months away," > though. I can appreciate the conventional wisdom of staying away from > N.0 releases, but we are putting quite a bit of effort into this one. > 6.1 is not going to be 9-12 months away either, nor will 6.2. The 6.x > line is generating quite a bit of excitement and will be a very good set > of releases. > > Scott