From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 16 15:25: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from duey.wolves.k12.mo.us (duey.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307E815004 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:24:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from duey.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.9]) by duey.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16184 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:24:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 17:24:39 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Dillon To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people think of May 1st for a 3.2 release date? In-Reply-To: <199903162136.NAA08893@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message , "Rich Wood" writes: > > On 16 Mar 99, at 18:59, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > And last week here in Holland for a friend of mine who has a WC subscriptio > > n > > > for them > > > > Talking of subscriptions, issuing releases too often may put people off > > subscriptions as it could start to get expensive. > > > > As people have pointed out, it takes a while to distribute CD's, as it > > stands, if 3.2 was to be released on May 1st, it would give 3.1-RELEASE a > > useable life of about 6 weeks[1] before 3.2-RELEASE was `created`. > > > > I'm not saying that we should hold off on 3.2 just because 3.1 is still > > new, but I feel there must be a compelling reason (major security fix, > > important new features etc.) to release it so soon after people get their > > 3.1 CD's. > > > > [1] For those of us outside USA. My CD only arrived on 13/3/99 > > I agree that this might be generally true, however I understand > that there are a lot of fixes that have gone into 3.1 since its > release. If this is a "once in a blue moon" event, I don't think > people would mind. I wouldn't mind getting all of the fixes. The only problem is, this won't be a one-time thing. As soon as we release 3.2, we'll probably immediately fix 50 more things we wished were in the release, and start wishing 3.3 were out. Nothing is perfect. Its just a fact of life. We might as well just release 3.2 on whatever schedule it would have been released normally. At least then we will more than likely have a few more fixes in there than if we released it earlier. No matter how we look at it, it sure beats the once-every-three-or-four-years releases we see with things like Windows. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net /* FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and compatibles (SPARC and Alpha under development) ( http://www.freebsd.org ) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message