Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:11:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Release stability (fwd) Message-ID: <199504202211.AAA05449@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504201932.PAA04694@ns1.win.net> from "Mark Hittinger" at Apr 20, 95 03:32:02 pm
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As Mark Hittinger wrote: > > In the old DEC world there was a three piece cycle that was followed > many times. A feature release followed by a robustness release. There > was also a performance release that followed the robustness release. I don't think we'll have the (personal) resources for this. It would require to work on two (or more) tagged trees simultaneously. The main development needs to continue in order to get new features in, since they require testing by more than only a couple of `inventors'. This is contradictionary (sp?) to the `bug fix only' issue, so the bug fixes will have to be done in a branch tree. That's the usual way during the alpha/beta phase of a release, but it requires way more efforts to get the bugfixes back into the regular tree. -- 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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