From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 6 16:10:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65EAA37B405; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (lxpx529.lx.ehu.es [158.227.27.175]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f86NAj905965; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:10:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from jose@localhost) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f86N3PJ00906; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:03:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jose) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:03:25 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" To: Jordan Hubbard 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> References: <20010906091807.A66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906094830P.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010906224612.I66592@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010906145730E.jkh@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010906145730E.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:57:30PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC 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 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