From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 07:55:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89D5106566C for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com (nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com [61.9.168.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745888FC0A for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:55:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@areilly.bpa.nu) Received: from nskntotgx02p.mx.bigpond.com ([124.188.162.219]) by nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20090713075532.LJPO1860.nskntmtas01p.mx.bigpond.com@nskntotgx02p.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:55:32 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([124.188.162.219]) by nskntotgx02p.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20090713075532.XFYM1990.nskntotgx02p.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:55:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 12238 invoked by uid 501); 13 Jul 2009 07:55:27 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:55:27 +1000 From: Andrew Reilly To: grarpamp Message-ID: <20090713075527.GA11259@duncan.reilly.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-RPD-ScanID: Class unknown; VirusThreatLevel unknown, RefID str=0001.0A150205.4A5AE874.0069,ss=1,fgs=0 X-SIH-MSG-ID: rxw1GN37TAD0zmQv0WC2OwcnyAzlq3Mv8Z4QX81loRIGTUDBp8PfStreLP1Ru8u6xD9PJhqCNGQlaa/mTY3RstCK Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD RoadMap X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:55:35 -0000 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:55:19AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Is there a general roadmap of what's planned > for future major releases? I don't mean minor > stuff like driver or contributed version bumps. > But bigger, or just plain cool things, like as SMP, > soft updates, ZFS, netgraph, pf, etc, were in the past. I doubt that there's much "big" in the ambit of "Unix-like OS" that isn't already in the 8-current series. In a project like FreeBSD, "what's in the roadmap" equates pretty closely with "what are the developers working on", and that is summarised in the quarterly status reports, such as this one: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.html As for when any of this will "hit the tree" and find its way into a release, that's very much a "how long is a piece of string" sort of question; not really the way FreeBSD works. Particularly since it moved to a calendar-based release schedule. IMO, YMMV, i-do-not-speak-for-freebsd, etc. Cheers, -- Andrew