Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:40:31 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: developers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: 6.0 branching (no longer: HEADS UP: 5.0 Feature Freeze October 16, 2002) Message-ID: <3DA7C3DF.1CFD6978@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021011163904.49992c-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200210112056.g9BKuZEx041686@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> I definitely agree with the 5.0 time schedule. I also agree with
> Julian that it would be premature to branch 5.0 into -stable and
> make 6.x -current. We should go through at *least* one more release
> cycle (5.1) before branching, IMHO, simply to reduce the amount of
> MFCing that would otherwise be necessary.
Matt brings up a good point here. I'm daring to cross-post this because
I want to move THIS discussion to -arch, where it belings. I've directed
replies to -arch.
I think we need to discuss when we will branch 6.x. I think we need to
wait until we have a 5.x release that is stable enough to consider for
production workstation usage levels, and hope we may reach that point
by the 5.2 release. I think arbitrarily whacking off a new development
branch before 5.x is really and truly stabilized could hurt the FreeBSD
project greatly.
This is obviously not my decision to make, and many of you know much
more about the actual work to be done than I do. Please provide your
input. I'm not asking that we make a decision at this point, just
getting people thinking about how we might go about this, since it is
likely to be different from how we've done it in the past.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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