Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:03:25 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, developers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4 will be delayed until Saturday, the 8th of September Message-ID: <20010907010325.C321@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> In-Reply-To: <20010906145730E.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:57:30PM -0700 References: <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906094830P.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010906224612.I66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906145730E.jkh@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:57:30PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Well, there does appear to be a lot of general feeling that we should > wait, so how would people feel about a push-back to the 14th? That > would put it out next Friday. I'm kinda loath to keep shoving the > release date forward since eventually people will start to wonder > whether or not 4.4 is going to join 5.0 in being delayed by a year, > but if there's a genuine desire to really test all the edge cases then > I'm willing to give users and developers the time they need. Applause > A corollary to this, however, is that I will NOT be accepting any more > feature submissions to the branch! If you can demonstrate that your > bug fix addresses a regression from 4.3 or applies only to the > documentation then I'll let it in, but I don't want to hear any "well, > since we have another week, can I merge the foo driver?" requests from > anyone. A week for polishing things up I can buy, but not a week to > try to cram in everything that missed the deadline. Bravo! >The branch is now FROZEN, as in arctic pack ice. /me sneezes and shivers :-) JMA -- ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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