Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 08:58:41 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP bugs in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Message-ID: <199610161358.IAA27615@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <l03010503ae8a050b6f01@[208.2.87.4]> from "Richard Wackerbarth" at Oct 15, 96 10:29:03 pm
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> >If need be, make it clear to people that 2.1.5R may be a more suitable > >choice for the sake of stability, and follow up with a 2.2.5R cleanup > >release to handle the problems discovered in 2.2R. > > > >At some point, the line has to be drawn. > > I generally agree with your approach. However I would suggest that not > 2.1.5, but 2.1.x is the appropriate one for production. If there are any further improvements to 2.1.X, I certainly do not disagree. I was working under the assumption that -stable was basically dead. However, if this is not the case, I am not against this at all! > IMHO, we need to > continue to provide some support for it until what would by current > practice be called 2.2.5 comes out. Yes. > I also think that it would improve our image if we would call THAT release > 2.2.0 and have a formal PRE_RELEASE that we call 2.2 Beta. What is wrong with the ALPHA/BETA/RELEASE cycle (aside from the fact that it has been pretty much abused/ignored for the last few releases)? Some of us are quite willing to test 2.2ALPHA if one is made available. However, I personally feel that in order to produce a more robust 2.2.5R, several months of beating on 2.2R will be necessary, and this is NOT going to be possible if the core team has a goal of December in mind for 2.2R. I would prefer to have a 2.2ALPHA in my hands TODAY, a 2.2BETA a month from now, followed by a 2.2R in December. This would shake out obvious bugs in 2.2R, but would not be a sufficient period of time for robustness testing and bug elimination. But... when it comes right down to it, I don't care too much about how it's numbered, I just want to see something happen. :-) ... JG
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