From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 18:09:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4472816A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:09:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0662143D72 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:09:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.14] (imini.samsco.home [192.168.254.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAGI9Odh076553; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:09:24 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <437B75D3.3070301@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:09:23 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew R. Reiter" References: <437B5993.5000003@computer.org> <437B5E6D.5040803@samsco.org> <20051116125120.T19663@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20051116125120.T19663@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele Subject: Re: Roadmap for v7.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:09:38 -0000 Andrew R. Reiter wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Scott Long wrote: > > :Eric Schuele wrote: > : > :> Hello, > :> > :> I was wondering if there is a doc which represents the roadmap for -current? > :> > :> I've looked around the Release Engineering pages a bit and found none, maybe > :> I missed it. > :> > :> Incidentally, a shortcut to Release Engineering might be useful on the > :> FreeBSD home page. > :> > : > :FreeBSD 7 was discussed in May at BSDCan, and I expect it to be discussed at > :EuroBSDCon in a few weeks. In general, I think that we > :are going to continue on the path of promising releases and not > :features. The release date for 7.0 will likely be in mid to late > :2007. As more details are agreed on they will be published, but > :again it's important to remember that we got ourselves into big > :trouble with 5.x by trying to pack too many features into it. > : > > I've read the RE docs before, but don't recall if there's a "Feature > Freeze" date for releases that we plan on? Might help in organizing > what's expected way before a release date. Not sure how that idea works > in FreeBSD-developer land, though. > I'm hoping that something can be worked out to allow me to participate remotely so that dates can be discussed and published. Scott