From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 15:23:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA12121 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:23:17 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA12109 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 15:22:39 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA09877; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:22:06 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA19304 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:22:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA05449 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:11:40 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504202211.AAA05449@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Release stability (fwd) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 00:11:40 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199504201932.PAA04694@ns1.win.net> from "Mark Hittinger" at Apr 20, 95 03:32:02 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 925 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)