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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 Available
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Andrei Kolu wrote:
> Sunday 04 November 2007 18:04:55 kirjutas Ladislav Bodnar:
>> On Sunday 04 November 2007, Ken Smith wrote:
>>> The 7.0-BETA2 builds have completed and are on many of the FreeBSD
>>> mirror sites.  If you want to update an existing machine using cvsup use
>>> RELENG_7 as the branch tag.  Instructions on using FreeBSD Update to
>>> perform a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 6.x to 7.0-BETA2 will be provided
>>> via the freebsd-stable list when available.
>> These release announcements seem to be shorter and shorter with every
>> release. Is there a changelog to see what has changed since BETA1? If so,
>> would you please consider linking to it in future announcements?
>>
> Why hurry with untested releases? I see so many obvious bugs and human errors 
> during release builds. Where is quality assurance or release engineering?
> 
> It smells more like ALPHA development not proper releasing...

Thanks for your insights, have a nice day.

Kris