From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 09:16:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC2A16A802 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:16:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E4F455CD for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:55:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s11so735476wxc for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:55:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UNKz6Oi4TEMZ3khSdNUFhnw1knejiShCUi6QPJUzcNPE8gbjpup0lHPchMcBgsXegW3XdVD73vXjS7h4cl6nQJtU5Fa+GPf2flwcg3abD+fC9xvtEY3yaAh6JNqzMxMZIVB/6p+2NC8z30L5bavuy1uvTaNfxUBImxXr64CIVtk= Received: by 10.70.117.17 with SMTP id p17mr752153wxc; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.9 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:55:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:55:43 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "M. Warner Losh" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060311.162241.133985759.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060311.162241.133985759.imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Subject: Re: When is the 6.1 branch going to be cut? 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: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:16:36 -0000 On 3/11/06, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: > "Nikolas Britton" 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/