From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 25 4:34:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC8C137B417 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 04:34:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0PCYkK79059; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:34:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 07:34:46 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: George Michaelson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: longer range FreeBSD projects into stable Message-ID: <20020125073446.B79005@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20020125131225.E4778@wantadilla.lemis.com> <26356.1011928462@apnic.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <26356.1011928462@apnic.net>; from ggm@apnic.net on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:14:22PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could check the FreeBSD Status Reports, mailed bimonthly to -hackers. It contains information on a lot of projects. On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:14:22PM +1000, George Michaelson wrote: > > Like many stable watchers, I'd be very interested in somebody posting > an occaisional 'whats coming in the next 6-18 months' about stuff like > the new kqueue, SMP, devfs, smbfs, (ok some are now in, but you get the idea) > > I don't mean to ruin christmas, sometimes the suprise is nice too but > some of the longer range stuff which is on chat or hackers or current > is sometimes very interesting for -stable. > > Could some of the core and near affinities keep up what they already > do every now and then, and feed us snippets? > > Do we retain any of the flavour of the odd/even number state BSD4.1 etc did > in terms of stability/feature-add? It feels not, but sometimes I'm less sure. > > You could do worse than have a variant of -announce for this too. > > looking forward to 4.5 -what I read suggests it will be a nice release. > > cheers > -George > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message