Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:04:26 -0800 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, stable@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas? Message-ID: <CAOgwaMtiNk1ZRaP3FgbA3P529LCKs8v8UD6vvct5GjUot=oa=Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmokhc1jGp0Q511pRjK%2B1Ae0astfqd9B3ykBoGZq%2B76kn6g@mail.gmail.com> References: <201212090318.UAA11257@lariat.net> <50C4A341.9070903@FreeBSD.org> <201212092031.NAA17017@lariat.net> <CAJ-Vmo=YSZKTYsVXdm_%2B11F=Kbimancz6w-Ogqb4ZU2VzQE25A@mail.gmail.com> <201212092215.PAA17770@lariat.net> <CAJ-Vmokhc1jGp0Q511pRjK%2B1Ae0astfqd9B3ykBoGZq%2B76kn6g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > It's definitely not targeted at you. The 9.1 stuff is an intersection of: > > * personal issues with some of the people involved (ie, "real life got > to them and that took precedence"); > * the security incident; > * the freebsd cluster shuffling and reshuffling that was going on at > the same time > > From my understanding there's enough hardware. Definitely not a > hardware specific problem. The foundation funds and provides plenty of > hardware, as well as yahoo and a few other companies. I don't think > we're short of i386/amd64 hardware. > > It's honestly just an intersection of bad timing. Since it's a > volunteer project, it's on the timelines of the volunteers in > question. > > I think people are right though when they comment on the lack of > communication from the project about this. See the list of things > above to understand why communication may not have been terribly > great. :-) > > I'll amend my "stuff that will help" list: > > * Donate to the freebsd foundation, along with opening discussions to > them about how your organisation uses / relies upon freebsd; > * Volunteer to join the release engineering / package building teams, > and actively donate manpower to the project. > > > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/ http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/announcements.shtml#fundraising Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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