Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:55:43 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is the 6.1 branch going to be cut? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0603112255r16eb4924uea8f37a3c470f0ab@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060311.162241.133985759.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <ef10de9a0603111032o277ae266v54b0226a83975587@mail.gmail.com> <20060311.162241.133985759.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On 3/11/06, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > In message: <ef10de9a0603111032o277ae266v54b0226a83975587@mail.gmail.com> > "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > : March 5th was the scheduled date, what's the hold up? > > I think we're going to see another BETA (BETA4) shortly. The hold up > is that there's still enough problems that need to be fixed that the > release isn't near enough to do the branch. The schedules are done > based on a best-guess approach, but in real life there can be a > deviation between ones best guesses and what actually happens. Since > FreeBSD isn't released based on a date[*], but based on when > things in the branch are good, some slippage is bound to happen from > time to time. > > Warner > > [*] We are moving to having the calendar drive more things than in the > past, but that was done with the understanding that the dates are > targets and we make choices to get as close to the targets as > possible. > Thanks for the status update, take all the time you need... All I ask is you keep the community in the loop. Have you thought about putting up a page on the website where FreeBSD committers and core members can easily post news, such as this, in an informal and/or casual manner?... wiki, blog, etc. Anyhow, Thanks for responding to my inquiry. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/
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