From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 23 02:13:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA10261 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 02:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA10256 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 02:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from opsys@mail.webspan.net) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with SMTP id FAA12872; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 05:12:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 05:12:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Open Systems Networking X-Sender: opsys@orion.webspan.net To: Studded cc: Brett Glass , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's the 3.0 press release? In-Reply-To: <363040E9.42459888@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Studded wrote: > "But we have warnings that it's experimental.... yadda yadda." We all > know that almost no one reads the release docs, and we've already seen a > small part of the fallout. I think it could only get worse by drawing > more attention to it. I agree it's not something I think we should be touting as stable incarnate. But do we really want to let this not get a PR. This is 3.0. A MAJOR release. And while I grant you it may not be the most stable or debugged version, this is a major milestone for the project. A major release doesnt happen every day. And I agree that putting in "... while slated at primarily developers and ISP's that have knowledgable staff..." is not going to really persaude anyone to wait for 3.1 or 2.2.8, when they read the PR. Just my opinion. If it's an absolute trashy release thats going to cause the support questions in usenet and IRC to flame up 1000% then it might not be such a hot idea. But I do think there is some merrit in this release and it deserves a little press. But the loudest voices here will prevail, so now is the time for everyone to speak up. What does everyone think? Chris -- "You both seem to be ignoring the fact that the networking market is driven by so-called 'IT professionals' these days, most of whom can't tell the difference between an ARP and a carp." -Wes Peters ===================================| Open Systems Networking And Consulting. FreeBSD 2.2.7 is available now! | Phone: 316-326-6800 -----------------------------------| 1402 N. Washington, Wellington, KS-67152 FreeBSD: The power to serve! | E-Mail: opsys@open-systems.net http://www.freebsd.org | Consulting-Network Engineering-Security ===================================| http://open-systems.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message