From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 10 14: 5:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B960437B407; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B8E1D162; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:04:44 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:04:43 +0100 From: Paul Richards To: Jordan Hubbard , nik@freebsd.org Cc: jason@dstc.edu.au, hubs@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.4 upcoming release/timetabling/mirroring Message-ID: <225240000.1000155883@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010910112955V.jkh@freebsd.org> References: <20010910093357K.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010910180352.C6391@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010910112955V.jkh@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Monday, September 10, 2001 11:29:55 -0700 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Well, again Nik, I asked how people would *feel* about it (read what I > said very carefully), I didn't say that I was announcing a push-back > to that date - that would have occurred in a follow-up making it clear > in no uncertain terms what the new date was. Some people did feel > that the 14th was a really good idea and others, who communicated with > me more privately, felt that it was a very bad idea for various > reasons I won't go into. I've since been trying to come up with a > firm date which would make all parties happy and since I have yet to > confirm that, you haven't seen an announcement declaring the new > release date. Hopefully we can have all this resolved in the next > 24 hours or so. So, a large public response requesting a delay to do more testing is not as relevant as private correspondence which you won't go into? I think you should explain what the reasons are for not going with the majority opinion on the list. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message