From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 27 14:29:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E33737B405 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.1]) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15FMsW-0002wq-00; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:29:40 +1200 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:29:40 +1200 (NZST) From: Juha Saarinen To: Bill Moran Cc: "'mupi@Mknet.org'" , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <01C0FEFE.8EB2BA80.wmoran@iowna.com> Message-ID: X-S: Always MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > In a company, alpha testing is done by the developers or other > employees of the company, Once Upon A Time this was true, but no longer. Viz. Microsoft's "Technology Preview" editions of various pieces of software. Due to lengthening development cycles, companies feel compelled to issue some pretty raw code into the public eye, just to show that they're actually doing something. The mindshare game I guess. Anyway, code never gets out of the beta stage. ;-) Oh, and could you please wrap your lines? -- Regards, Juha PGP fingerprint: B7E1 CC52 5FCA 9756 B502 10C8 4CD8 B066 12F3 9544 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message