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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:09:23 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        "Andrew R. Reiter" <arr@watson.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
Subject:   Re: Roadmap for v7....
Message-ID:  <437B75D3.3070301@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051116125120.T19663@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <437B5993.5000003@computer.org> <437B5E6D.5040803@samsco.org> <20051116125120.T19663@fledge.watson.org>

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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



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