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Subject: Re: Please don't hurry
To: mouth@ibm.net (John Kelly)
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In-Reply-To: <345260f6.1453370@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from John Kelly at "Oct 25, 97 09:53:03 pm"
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> If several hundred users would pre-subscrible for them, you should be
> able to cover the cost of producing and mailing them.
> 
> When you finally have a CD set that needs no more changes, go with
> that one, unchanged, as the real production release.  Under no
> circumstances should you make any changes, even trivial ones, between
> the final beta CD and the real production run.  The risk of new bugs
> introduced by last minute changes is too great.
> 
> I realize this suggestion would extend the beta cycle to three or four
> months, perhaps unheard of for FreeBSD, but I would like to see the
> final 2.2.X release as near to perfect as possible because it might be
> a long time before I'm ready for anything in the 3.X series, even
> after it goes stable.
> 
> While it's true that I can always CVSup fixes if the CD has bugs, if
> you have a pack of production machines to install and maintain, it
> sure is nice to just stick the CD in the drive, install, and be done
> with it.

Well said.  An as a shop that is running production stuff on FreeBSD, I
agree completely about stability.  That's why we're running FreeBSD
instead of Linux, and why we're running 2.1.7 or 2.1-STABLE.

> John

	-crl
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