From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 13 19:50:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422E2106566B for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:50:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org (saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org [217.29.35.151]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BC38FC14 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:50:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org [IPv6:2001:5c0:8521:0:20f:feff:fe0e:7312]) by saturn.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n6DJd4pL089900 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:39:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6DJd4n3049938 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:39:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: (from wolfgang@localhost) by juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6DJd3bf049937 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:39:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: juno.lyxys.ka.sub.org: wolfgang set sender to wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org using -f Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:39:03 +0200 From: Wolfgang Zenker To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090713193903.GA49591@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <20090713075527.GA11259@duncan.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: private site Subject: Re: FreeBSD RoadMap X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:50:18 -0000 * Masoom Shaikh [090713 20:26]: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Andrew Reilly wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:55:19AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: >>> Is there a general roadmap of what's planned >>> for future major releases? I don't mean minor >>> stuff like driver or contributed version bumps. >>> But bigger, or just plain cool things, like as SMP, >>> soft updates, ZFS, netgraph, pf, etc, were in the past. >> I doubt that there's much "big" in the ambit of "Unix-like OS" >> that isn't already in the 8-current series. >> In a project like FreeBSD, "what's in the roadmap" equates >> pretty closely with "what are the developers working on", and >> that is summarised in the quarterly status reports, such as this >> one: >> http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.html >> As for when any of this will "hit the tree" and find its way >> into a release, that's very much a "how long is a piece of >> string" sort of question; not really the way FreeBSD works. >> Particularly since it moved to a calendar-based release >> schedule. >> IMO, YMMV, i-do-not-speak-for-freebsd, etc. > can this help ? > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html or you could visit this years eurobsdcon and listen to http://www.ukuug.org/events/eurobsdcon2009/talks/#mckusick :-)