Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:50:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Jeremy Sigmon <jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.x release question Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.94.961016114325.2206B-100000@covina.lightside.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961016101245.15906D-100000@www.hsc.wvu.edu>
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > Is there any sort of criteria set for what has to be done to -current > before it can be released? All I have seen is ambiguous dates like > Feb'97 and such or my personal favorite, "When its Done". > I am a firm believer in the "When its Done" software releasing scheme, > but is there a set criteria to mark "When its Done"? I'm curious about this one too. Is there anything 2.2-CURRENT is waiting for before it can be released? The only things I can think of are: 1) More pounding on devfs (is it planned as a standard feature installed by sysinstall, or more of an optional feature installed by hand?) 2) More Lite-2 integration? The things I'm pretty sure will not make it into 2.2: 1) Some radical new replacement for sysinstall and/or packages. 2) Any feature that's not already in there. So the way I see things (and since I'm not a core team person, this is just my opinion), FreeBSD 2.2 could easily be released by Christmas, or even the end of November. I think if the core team puts the squeeze on everyone and gives at least a tentative deadline, we'll all go into crunch mode, pay more attention to testing the latest snapshots and/or making world, and in general things will move to a definitive conclusion, otherwise we could just flounder along with -current for years. Because I believe -current is at least as stable as 2.1.5, and certainly more stable than its been at any point in history. Perhaps it's time to split CVS once again into a 2.2.0-RELEASE branch and a new -current, although I personally don't care either way. Just my $0.02, but I would like to hear what Jordan et al has to say on this. -- Jake
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