From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 10:30:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt050n71.san.rr.com (dt050n71.san.rr.com [204.210.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3DF156A7 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gateway.gorean.org (gateway.gorean.org [10.0.0.1]) by dt050n71.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08942; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:29:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt050n71.san.rr.com To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Michael Lucas , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ? In-Reply-To: <5595.939771851@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Frankly, a year and a half is way too much wait for a system to > > become stable. Hopefully, the shorter development cycle of 4.0 will > > result in a 4.x line getting stabilized much faster. > > I agree. I also suspect that 4.0 will branch in a much more timely > fashion than 3.0 did. We learned some hard lessons with 3.0's > schedule. This is good news on both fronts. The sheer volume of ultra-cool stuff going into -current lately that just can't be backported would definitely lead in this direction, so I'm glad to hear that's where the CW is as well. Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message