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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 1995 08:49:46 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: Minutes of the Thursday, April 13th core team meeting in Berkeley.
Message-ID:  <199504200649.IAA02111@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504200012.UAA07776@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Apr 19, 95 08:12:06 pm

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As Peter Dufault wrote:
> 
> > > 	We should look at X.Y.Z releases every N months (3?) (2.5?)
> > 
> > I think, 3 months have been the initial intent of WC for regular
> > releases...
> 
> I think 6 month releases with 3 month bug fix releases (4 releases
> per year) would be great and almost impossible to actually do, and
> would be a good target.

Hmm, it's perhaps a question of naming.  I think the Berkeley
tradition was to have even-numbered releases with lots of new stuff
and odd-numbered releases which have been mainly bugfix releases.
(I dunno if this has been intention or not.)

However, _every_ release should be of some basic quality that's better
than say the average ***x release quality.  We all know about 2.0, but
it should remain an exception.  Yeah, what makes our job for 2.1 so
hard is the fact that 1.1.5.1 was of such a quality that it beats many
commercial systems -- and we want to have 2.1 at least as stable as
1.1.5.1.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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