From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 27 15: 2: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5F5C37B403 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kc5vdj@yahoo.com) Received: from mkc-65-28-47-209.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.28.47.209) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 2001 22:02:01 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B8AC358.3020303@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:02:00 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Sean Chittenden , Poul-Henning Kamp , Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up! References: <3B89DF04.F6A250F9@elischer.org> <66544.998934042@critter> <20010827133112.B79584@rand.tgd.net> <3B8AB039.7090705@yahoo.com> <20010827134902.A80313@rand.tgd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 1:49 PM -0700 8/27/01, Sean Chittenden wrote: > >> > > If there are grave concerns about having KSE and SMPng in >> > > 5.X, then why not push back the release date? The value far >> > > outweighs the extra months needed to get it finished and out >> > > the door, ...etc... >> > >> >>> Good idea. >> >> >> Seriously, is there any reason to hold to a time line >> at the expense of some very important and very fundamental >> enhancements to FreeBSD? I suppose that's something for -core >> to talk about/discuss, but I bet that if a poll was put on the >> homepage of FreeBSD.org (hint hint) asking about this, you'd >> get an overwhelming response to see KSE/SMPng in 5.X. With a >> poll you might even pick up some more testers given the exposure >> (hint hint). -sc > > > We can't just keep pushing back the release date because "some > very important enhancements" could be made. It will ALWAYS be > true that there are more "very important enhancements" on > the horizon, and you can't keep running after those. You have > to pick some point, and stick to that point, and "ship" at that > point. As long as current is known to be in rapid flux, most I'm glad you support integration of KSE then... As I recall such threading was in the original design specs for 5.0, as released when work on 5.0 began. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message