From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 12:44:28 2003 Return-Path: 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 5531337B401 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:44:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from b.smtp-out.sonic.net (b.smtp-out.sonic.net [208.201.224.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63CE243FAF for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:44:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Received: (qmail 21787 invoked from network); 8 Aug 2003 19:44:27 -0000 Received: from ultra.sonic.net (208.201.224.22) by b.smtp-out.sonic.net with SMTP; 8 Aug 2003 19:44:26 -0000 Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (adsl-64-142-29-77.sonic.net [64.142.29.77]) by ultra.sonic.net (8.11.6p2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id h78JfHR27245; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:41:18 -0700 X-envelope-info: Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (bmah@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h78Jfimh054276; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Message-Id: <200308081941.h78Jfimh054276@intruder.kitchenlab.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Joseph In-Reply-To: References: Comments: In-reply-to Warner Joseph message dated "Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:49:05 -0400." From: "Bruce A. Mah" X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_492554272P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:41:44 -0700 Sender: bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: "'fcash@sd73.bc.ca'" Subject: Re: 2 Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bmah@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 19:44:28 -0000 --==_Exmh_492554272P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Warner Joseph wrote: > >There's a 4.9 scheduled for release later this year / early next year. > >4-STABLE will be around until 5.x is deemed ready for everyday, > >production use and a 5-STABLE branch is created. This is tentatively > >scheduled for 5.2, but may be pushed back to 5.3 is need be. Thus, > >there might be a 4.10 and possibly even a 4.11. > > Really? Wow! For some reason I wasn't thinking it would continue > on that far. Without committing the release engineering team to anything: One idea is that after 4.9, we might do some maintenence releases, primarily to merge in bugfixes. These would be more along the lines of "4.9.1", "4.9.2", et al. If we do lightweight 4.9.X releases after 4.9, we can concentrate more on building more robust 5.X releases so we can do a 5-STABLE branch. As an aside, doing interleaved releases from the 5.X and 4.X branches is really hard on the RE and portmgr teams. We can cut four releases total in a year, but that's pushing it (three used to be normal). I know that CDROM vendors and many of our fellow users would like us to release more often, but there's just a limit to what we can do while avoiding concurrent releases, major holidays, etc. Bottom line is that there aren't any firm plans at this point, although I assure you it's something we're thinking about. Bruce. --==_Exmh_492554272P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE/M/z42MoxcVugUsMRAoSCAJ4+810djbjWriyzsqD9gn8Cb13sgwCgmEDP dq+KQ6vRF7L0SUFVmZbfaRw= =l/Rr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_492554272P--