From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 05:25:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3809716A4BF for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 05:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk (hannibal.servitor.co.uk [195.188.15.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB2A43FDD for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2003 05:25:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@iconoplex.co.uk) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk ([195.188.15.48] helo=iconoplex.co.uk) by hannibal.servitor.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 19vyef-000E8f-Vl for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:28:34 +0100 Message-ID: <3F5B239A.3020400@iconoplex.co.uk> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:24:58 +0100 From: Paul Robinson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: The Old Way Was Better X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 12:25:09 -0000 Jason C. Wells wrote: >I would like to cast my vote for returning to the old release method. >Please don't call the next major version of FreeBSD a release until it is >truly ready to be a release. > For what it's worth, I and a large number of other people I know would agree. The 5.x releases so far have been VERY badly received with the people I've spoken to and it's not done FBSD any favours. I seem to remember something similar happening when we were all running 3.x boxes and 4.x started getting releases, but nothing quite like this. I hear a bikeshed rolling down the hill... -- Paul Robinson