Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:24:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: annoucing 5.1-beta Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030511102250.91079H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030511065328.GA30202@intruder.bmah.org>
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On Sat, 10 May 2003, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Scott Long wrote:
> > I just did a spot check of ftp[0-6].freebsd.org and all have the i386
> > 5.1-BETA bits. Since i386 is the most popular platform and sparc64
> > and alpha are waiting to be finished, I'm going to go ahead and
> > announce 5.1-BETA. If anyone objects, please let me know in the next
> > hour. Also, Murray made a request for this cycle to make these types
> > of annoucement wider, including posting them to freebsd-annouce. How
> > do others feel about this?
>
> No objections on either point from here.
>From my perspective, the 5.1-BETA announcement gives us a chance to do two
things: (a) highlight the spiffy new features, and (b) lower expectations
for the release ("next milestone on the path to a production 5-STABLE
branch"). Both serve a useful function--I'm not opposed to the notion of
this going out to -announce, assuming it comes with the "lots of debugging
enabled" performance caveat. I have some feeling that we actually need
two announce lists, -announce and -devannounce or the like, but since we
don't have that, I guess -announce is the place.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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