Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:15:37 -0500 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu> To: "terra" <vlgfreaza@terra.com.br>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Release Message-ID: <200207101815.37593.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <009601c227ff$614bda60$74cf97c8@pilaia> References: <009601c227ff$614bda60$74cf97c8@pilaia>
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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 05:48 am, terra wrote: > Back in the Home Page > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/schedule.html) it is describing the > steps of the launching of the 4.6-release version. It will be that with only > 2 RELEASE CANDIDATES (with interval of only 1 day of one cadidate for the > other) it is the sufficient to determine itself if the version already is > ready to be launched? Please read the page you cite more carefully. I see the first release candidate coming out on 15 May 2002 and RC-4 coming out on 6 June 2002. If you are going to rant, please rant about reality. > I find that in 1 month and some days it > is not time enough to become test and if to determine the launching of a new > version already is ready. Do you propose that the -stable branch should be frozen most of the time? You can't put out three or four releases a year and test each one for three months. > In my opnião the 4.6-release version was > prematurely launched, because you find "bug" in the hour to even give boot > with cd-01 to be able to make the installation and relatively serious other > bug related to IDE DEVICE ATA If she was made more tests in this version > before the launching, these two probelemas would not have been before > detected and thus to have been corrected before being launched? The ATA code in question had been in -stable since March. Bugs were known. It was decided to release anyway because Søren could not reproduce some of the problems in his lab, and thus it seemed likely to take a long time to fix. The problem is there are people waiting for each release. 4.6-R _was_ delayed for a few weeks over the original date. It can't be delayed indefinitely because people want to sell the CDs. I agree it's frustrating when the "latest release" has several bugs, but that isn't always controllable. I think the release team does a pretty good job in balancing different interests. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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