From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 5:30:22 2003 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 288F137B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:30:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no (fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8645843F18 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 05:30:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hanche@math.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 33329 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2003 13:30:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jan 2003 13:30:17 -0000 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 RC3 now available In-Reply-To: <20030114103822.GG61405@starjuice.net> References: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D6B2@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> <20030114103822.GG61405@starjuice.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20030114143017K.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:30:17 +0100 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 20 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG + Sheldon Hearn : | On (2003/01/14 10:22), local.freebsd.current wrote: | | > I'm not trying to get up anyone's nose here, but aren't there | > objective release criteria? | | Yes. One of the release criteria is that it come into existence. :-) Indeed. There is an old story from the days of the big irons, when IBM had an "objective" release criterion stating that no new release of their OS would be shipped with more than 100 major bugs. As a result, before each release, the engineers would have a big meeting with the purpose of redefining major bugs as minor bugs. I have no idea if the story is true, but there is a lesson in there somewhere, so in a deeper sense it must be true. - Harald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message