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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:30:23 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "R. Imura" <imura@ryu16.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh 
Message-ID:  <32967.1121182223@phk.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:33:12 %2B0900." <20050712143312.GA51198%imura@ryu16.org> 

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In message <20050712143312.GA51198%imura@ryu16.org>, "R. Imura" writes:
>Hi,
>
>> Well, here's the problem:
>> 
>> Jan:       Spring semester start
>> Apr - May: Spring semester final exams
>> Jun:       Large conferences (USENIX, WWDC, etc)
>> Jul - Aug: European Summer Holiday
>> Sep - Oct: Fall semester start, security advisory season
>> Nov - Dec: USA Holidays, religious holidays, fall semester final exams
>> 
>> So the only good time to do a release in in Feb-Mar.
>> 
>> Scott
>
>At Feb-Mar, we have fall semester final exams for students,
>end of fiscal year for workers. :-p

Historically I found that summer vacation was the least awful time
to do releases _exactly_ because there were fewer people around.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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