From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 16 16:34:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from angel.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574C3150B1 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mvergall@mail.double-barrel.be) Received: from ns.double-barrel.be (ns.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.18]) by angel.double-barrel.be (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA01449; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 01:33:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ns.double-barrel.be (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA00787; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 01:33:27 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 01:33:27 +0100 (CET) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: Chris Dillon Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people think of May 1st for a 3.2 release date? In-Reply-To: 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 Probably you should stick to the original release time. Duplicators and poeple who live in far away places can allways cvs the fixes. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Chris Dillon wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message