From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 3 21:25:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA20540 for current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA20535 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:25:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA03285; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:55:34 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609040425.NAA03285@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Food for thought To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:55:34 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Sep 3, 96 08:09:01 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Richard Wackerbarth stands accused of saying: > > I disagree about the adequacy of "snap" releases. Jordan seems to get them > out perhaps once a month. (I'm not faulting him) There are those who want > to help check out things with much less latency, like maybe a day. The only > problem is that they don't want to spend all of their time just getting the > build to work. You are totally beyond reason, I'm afraid. You want stuff to be "stable", but you expect the whole testing process to produce a lag of less than a _day_? What sort of billion-dollar empire do you think FreeBSD inc. is?? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[