Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:17:38 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: paula@jeffnet.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do people think of May 1st for a 3.2 release date? Message-ID: <199903171917.UAA02618@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <12693.921657447@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Mar 16, 99 11:57:27 pm"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote... > > Ideally, I'd expect two and no more than three releases per year. > We simply have to make releases or the product would never get any > better. A handful of programmers and a release engineer or two > obviously cannot test the product to the extent that many thousands of > users can, and people seem to be psychologically averse to snapshots > (if you compare the download stats) and/or need CDROM media before Keep in mind that a lot of people are in countries where you have to pay dearly for networking. No "wireless LAN on the streetlights" for the the majority of us. 600Mb worth of download (I know, you can limit it, but just to compare with the CDs) is a costly affair. Having said that there is probably a psychological "when it is on CDs it should be good" attitude. Anyway, the leadtimes on CDs from the US to Europe are a serious concern I'd say. Especially since there is always a tendency to tell people to go to Version X++ when they have just received their Version X CDROM. </RAMBLE> Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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